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Preview "Revenge - Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

This year, the blog will be mainly focused on the previews, just out of brand new books and reviews of them: D
The first book that deserves its place here is the revenge Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, the second volume of a trilogy, published by Giunti Y. The book will be released in February, will cost € 14.50 ... and already I can not wait!

Synopsis: Set in a community near future like The Giver, in a village where everyone thinks only of himself and people with illnesses or physical problems are considered useless to the community and are left to die, a lame girl fight to win the right to live. But

, managing to carve out a place within that society, then you will realize how wrong it is deeply and how to change it. Then reject the chance that at some point you will be offered to escape, and decide to stop and start to change things from within.

The first volume had already been reviewed here .

Synopsis: Set in a near future where companies have been canceled individual differences, perception of pain, passion and deep feelings, the book recounts a year in the life of Jonas , a boy of twelve years, was awarded the task to take the memory of humanity. While Jonas collects memories of The Giver, feeling all the sensations on your skin that no other member of the community will ever know, he discovers the terrible secret of the Company in which he lives. It realizes that the road to knowledge is a path of no return

The author:
Lois Lowry, Lois Ann born Hammersburg to Oahu in 1937, is a writer statuinitense. Before turning to literature for children has been a freelance photographer and journalist in the seventies.
His journalistic style attracted the attention of the publisher Houghton Mifflin after a while that 'managed in order to pressure them to write his first book, A Summer to Die , published in 1977.
In his career as a writer has twice won the prestigious John Newbery Medal for the first time in 1990 for Number the Stars and then for The Giver (1993).
Among the favorite topics to be included in the Lowry's works there are racism, the Holocaust, the murder and terminal illnesses. His works are found in many U.S. institutions and are part of the curriculum test.