Título: Wilder Girls
Autor: Rory Power
Sinopse: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"The perfect kind of story for our current era."—Hypable
Featured in Vulture’s "11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets"!
From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
And don't miss Rory Power's second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down!
Praise for Wilder Girls:
4 STARRED REVIEWS!
"Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls' academy, and you'll arrive at Rory Power's occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls."--Refinery29
"This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the season's most talked-about books, in any genre."--EW
"Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls."--NPR
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Wilder Girls”, de Rory Power, publicado pela editora Ember, em 2020 e com 400 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: Ember
Páginas: 400
Ano: 2020-06-02
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0525645616
ISBN13: 9780525645610
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Ember apresentam uma variedade de narrativas que transitam entre o contemporâneo e o fantástico, sempre com personagens jovens em momentos decisivos de suas vidas. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve protagonistas adolescentes enfrentando dilemas pessoais, sociais e até sobrenaturais, com uma linguagem acessível e ritmo que ora é ágil, ora mais reflexivo. O catálogo sugere obras que exploram temas como identidade, pertencimento, conflitos familiares e descobertas, ora em ambientes urbanos modernos, ora em mundos imaginários ou distópicos. Há uma atenção especial a histórias que combinam humor com emoção, além de tramas que equilibram romance, mistério e aventura.
