Título: Another Kingdom (Another Kingdom, 1)
Autor: Andrew Klavan
Sinopse: “What was this place? Was I crazy? Or was I crazy before, back in L.A.? Was my real life some sort of dream? Was this hell reality?”
Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter from LA whose dreams of success seem to slip further out of reach every day. Suddenly, Austin’s life changes forever when he walks through a studio door and is unwittingly transported to a fantastical medieval realm…
Austin finds himself standing over the body of a very beautiful and very dead woman. A bloody dagger sits in his palm; he has no idea how the dagger got there. Bewildered and confused, he is seized by castle guards and thrown in the dungeon of a castle he has no recollection of. Austin begins to fear for his life, but just when things look their bleakest he passes through another doorway and is suddenly transported back to reality in LA.
Did that really just happen? Has he gone insane? Was it all a dream? Did he have a brain tumor? Austin needs answers, and quickly. He sets out to find them and discovers that the mystery can only be unlocked by a strange piece of fiction that holds the truth about the magical kingdom. But he isn’t the only person in pursuit of the mysterious manuscript, and his rivals will stop at nothing to get it first. To complicate matters more, Austin soon discovers that he has no control over when he passes between worlds. Escaping danger in a fantasy world and now in the real world, Austin finds himself out of trust for even the simple things, like walking through doorways.
Stuck between dual realities – charged for a murder he doesn’t recall in one and running from a maniacal billionaire who’s determined to kill him in another – Austin’s monotonous life has become an epic adventure of magic, murder, and political intrigue in both the New Republic of Galiana and the streets of Los Angeles California.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Another Kingdom (Another Kingdom, 1)”, de Andrew Klavan, publicado pela editora Turner, em 2019 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Turner
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2019-03-19
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1684422639
ISBN13: 9781684422630
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Turner conduzem o leitor por narrativas que transitam entre o rigor histórico, o retrato social e a aventura pessoal, muitas vezes em cenários marcados por tensões políticas e culturais. A experiência de leitura varia entre relatos densos e detalhados — como histórias de conflitos, descobertas urbanas e biografias íntimas — e obras que exploram o cotidiano com um tom mais leve ou até humorístico. O catálogo sugere uma preferência por textos que mesclam pesquisa cuidadosa com narrativas acessíveis, contemplando tanto temas contemporâneos quanto períodos históricos complexos, sempre com personagens que enfrentam dilemas humanos profundos.
