Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... The Thief Lord (originale 2000; edizione 2003)di Cornelia Funke
Informazioni sull'operaIl re dei ladri di Cornelia Funke (2000)
Thieves (2) German Literature (81) » 18 altro Books Set in Italy (79) Best Young Adult (342) Books Read in 2018 (2,887) KayStJ's to-read list (251) Children's Fantasy (66) Books About Boys (75) 4th Grade Books (192) Tagged Runaways (5) Unread books (691) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Tolle Geschichte, den Twist in die Fantasy gegen Ende hätte ich nicht gebraucht... ( ) A YA read aimed at (perhaps?) a middle grade audience. The plot ran along the lines of a band of homeless kids in Venice, with a mysterious leader not really much older than they were (except for Bo, the youngest, a brother of Prosper, the other MC). Without revealing the plot twists, there developed an untenable situation for the kids remaining in their hideout. How this developed was an engaging adventure, with amusing character developments. Inevitably, they ran into difficulties beyond their ability to cope. Two supporting characters ('Victor' and the countess 'Ida') manage to intervene in crucial, if unrealistic ways. As an adult reading the story, I found the adventure which Scipio and Prosper had, on an offshore Venetian island, out of context with the lead up in the story, not to mention the fantasy developments afterwards. The story especially became convoluted with Against the expectation created by the title and cover, till around page 176, this book appeared to be a rather boring tale about orphan children living rough in a condemned cinema in Venice, two of them on the run from their aunt who wants only the five year old, and plans to pack the twelve year old off to a boarding school. The children live off the proceeds of objects stolen by the mysterious Thief Lord, a twelve or thirteen year old boy who does not live at the cinema and comes and goes intermittently. Before long, their precarious existence starts to unravel when they accept a commission to steal a wooden wing on behalf of a mysterious Conte (count). Without giving away the fantasy element which finally starts to turn this into something like the adventure story I was expecting, I found this unsatisfactory on a number of levels. There is a wish fulfilment aspect which undermines the initial idea of children who are living rough and relying on stealing. By the end, all plights are resolved in a fairy tale manner - the children who want a secure home are granted one by a woman who, we have been told, is a famous photographer and travels a lot, but seems to throw it all over to take in a number of children and their kittens. The kids who want to remain independent are able to go off to another squat and carry on as before. The one who solved his home problems magically (the Thief Lord) has no difficulties caused by the fact that he now has no paperwork to prove who he is Another aspect that irritated me is the role of girls and women. One of the kids in the cinema is a girl but despite the scene early on when she manages to thwart the detective when he is tracking the two runaways on behalf of the aunt, she spends most of the time worrying about other characters, and volunteers to look after the five year old when he would otherwise be a liability when the others go to do the robbery for the Conte. The photographer, as I've said, seems to chuck her career without there being any question even raised, and even the aunt who decides to dump both boys in an orphanage when the younger one plays up, is so gooey eyed about having a kid that she is persuaded into adopting a boy she has hardly met I'm guessing that if this book had been around when I was the target age group, I would've been too bored to finish it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
ContieneÈ un adattamento diHa l'adattamentoHa come guida per l'insegnantePremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
A Venezia, tra oscuri canali e palazzi in rovina che offrono un rifugio perfetto a chi vuole sparire, Prosper e Bo, orfani in fuga da due zii malvagi che li vogliono separare, incontrano una banda di ragazzini che vivono in un cinema abbandonato. Fanno capo a Scipio: audace e misterioso, ©· lui il re dei ladri che garantisce la sopravvivenza dei compagni grazie ai suoi furti mirabolanti. Senza un attimo di esitazione Prosper e Bo entrano a far parte di questa "famiglia" e si trovano coinvolti in un avventura che cambier© per sempre la loro vita. Una citt© antica e piena di misteri fa da sfondo a un racconto che oscilla tra divertimento, fuga e desiderio di libert© . Et© di lettura: da 11 anni. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |