In the original series, Lyra is a carefree 11-year old girl in Oxford, England, who’s suddenly pulled into a world of intrigue that pits her against the all-powerful Magisterium and sends her to the Arctic to rescue kidnapped children. The new book, "The Secret Commonwealth," picks up the story of Lyra Belacqua - now known as Lyra Silvertongue - from his earlier series "His Dark Materials." It’s the second book in Pullman’s new trilogy "The Book of Dust." The celebrated English author has just written a 630-page adventure story brimming with contentious ideas about religious tyranny, the loss of imagination and the nature of consciousness - all in a book that’s marketed to children.Īctually, Pullman doesn’t consider himself a children’s book author - "this is a marketing question, not about the way the books are written," he says - but he’s somehow managed to write a book that’s both a page-turner and a philosophical investigation into some of the deepest mysteries in science. Once again Philip Pullman has pulled off a remarkable high-wire act.
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