House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
From the unique combination of the timelessness of an old and seemingly forgotten world deftly mixed with the futuristic reality of a brave new world comes a chilling tale of ethics and mortality that is thought provoking and macabre, and yet strangly fascinating...Is this the way of the future? Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children, from other people. To most people Matt isn't a boy, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence trully means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, Matt longs for escape. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked but his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect.
Nancy Farmer is the writer of two Newbery Honor Books. She grew up on the border between Arizona and Mexico in the landscape that she evokes so strongly in her disturbing futuristic adventure, The House of the Scorpion. Nancy Farmer lives with her family in Menlo Park, California.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780689836879 |
| ISBN 10 | 0689836872 |
| Title | House of the Scorpion |
| Author | Nancy Farmer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2002-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Winner of US National Book Awards: Young People's Literature 2002 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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