The Subtle Knife

By: Philip Pullman

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Paperback | 22 July 2000

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The world of Cittagazze is an unsettling place: silent, empty streets, the threat of horrible death from the soul-eating Spectres from which only children are safe. Into this world comes Will, a 12 year old boy who has just killed a man. On the run, he meets a strange young girl called Lyra. Their paths take them to the mysterious Torre degli Angeli, where they must somehow acquire Cittagazze's most important secret: an object which people from many worlds would kill to possess. But Will has his own task as well: he must find the father he has never known. Could it be that this quest, and Lyra's, are a part of the same larger one? The Subtle Knife is part 2 of the trilogy His Dark Materials.

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As an author, Pullman is as hard to classify as Tolkien or Pratchett: certainly not just for children, he isn't quite fantasy either. The Subtle Knife is the sequel to the award-winning Northern Lights. At the end of the first book, our heroine Lyra disappears over the bridge of energy created by her redoubtable father Lord Asriel. Now she emerges in a strange 'crossroads world' haunted by vampire-like spectres. In it she meets the boy who will be Adam to her Eve: 12-year-old Will, who has found a 'window' from his own territory, modern day Oxford. There are, it seems, innumerable parallel worlds, whose occupants make parallel mistakes in parallel times. Pullman is preoccupied by the way that creativity can be deadened and defeated by a child's transition into adulthood. He has a lot to say and his symbols and signposts are elegant, but what dominates is his masterful telling of the tale. (Kirkus UK)

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