Golden Compass (One of the Black Matter Trilogy)

Author: Philip Pullman
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Philip Pullman is a renowned contemporary British author. His masterpiece, "His Dark Materials Trilogy," has taken the world of books by storm, selling over ten million copies, and is the most anticipated fantasy epic in the world! With a plot as intricate as "Harry Potter" and a grandeur surpassing "The Lord of the Rings," this book is one of the trilogy. The same-named film is being meticulously crafted by the original cast of "The Lord of the Rings." "The Golden Compass" won the Carnegie Medal and the highest prize for children's literature in the UK, the "Guardian Children's Fiction Prize." The author was thus hailed as "the finest Anglo-Saxon fantasy novelist since J.R.R. Tolkien," and in 2005, he won the third Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. This is an extraordinary world where a person's soul is a spirit in animal form, and humans and spirits are inseparable; otherwise, life would cease to exist. In Oxford, a world where souls live as animals, 13-year-old Lyra grows up without the love of a family. She doesn't know her wealthy, powerful, but now enemy parents, nor does she realize she carries a world-shaking curse: she spends her days carefree with her companions and their spirits, growing into a cunning, reckless, and deceitful wild girl. However, terrifying prophecies cannot be avoided. Lyra is destined to take on the role of the savior, playing the part of Eve, the mother of humanity: "Dust," feared by all, appears, Gobblers roam the city's streets, companions disappear one after another without a trace, and happy times come to an end with the loss of her close friend Roger. A vast conspiracy is brewing. With a golden compass—a truth-teller that she can understand and predict the future—Lyra, unaware of the dangers, decides to find the children taken by the evil scientist. From then on, she embarks on a difficult journey to save the world; she heads toward the unknown North Pole. Waiting for her are armored bears, witches, angels, cliff ghosts, and even a spirit-cutter that can end life. And the one who guides her step by step into the land of death is none other than her father, the natural scientist Lord Asriel, and her mother, the fervent fundamentalist Mrs. Coulter.