The Book of Dust

Hardcover

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Childrens.

ISBN:
9780385604413

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5 stars (1 review)

La Belle Sauvage is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman published in 2017. It is the first volume of a planned trilogy titled The Book of Dust and is set twelve years before Pullman's His Dark Materials. It presents events prior to the arrival of the six-month-old Lyra Belacqua at Jordan College, Oxford.

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Pullman's artistry intensifies

5 stars

What a joyous thing to see this book arrive, the sequel to "His Dark Materials" and learn that it will be the first in a trilogy. It tells a grand tale of adventure and danger, as the young Malcolm Polstead rescues Lyra Belaqua and embarks on an epic journey down a mystically flooded river Thames. It doesn't quite match the thrill of the books which precede it, but in its surreal and mythic account of an alternative dimension, a secret commonwealth, Pullman extends his universe in other ways. The impression it left on me is that it was a poetic turn, the events were dreamlike, appealing to deeper cultural instincts. The religious extremism and oppression of the Magisterium remains firmly in place from the previous books.