The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

This modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors.

Matteo Alacr n was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patr n, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster--except for El Patr n. El Patr n loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.

As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patr n's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacr n Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.

Nancy Farmer Es autora de nueve novelas, entre ellas: The Ear, The Eye and The Arm y A Girl Named Disaster, cada una merecedora de una mencion honorifica del premio Newberry; El estigma del alacran, ganadora del National Book Award, asi como de mencion honorifica de los premios Newberry y Michael L. Printz y El Patron del Opio la secuela a El estigma del alacran. Para los lectores un poco mas jovenes escribio una trilogia inspirada en la mitologia nordica: The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples y The Islands of the Blessed. Nancy Farmer crecio en la frontera entre Arizona y Mexico en el paisaje que tanto evoca en esta novela. Vive con su esposo en un pequeno pueblo llamado Portal, en Arizona, uno de los escenarios de la novela.

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ISBN 13	9780439577823
ISBN 10	0439577829
Title	The House of the Scorpion
Author	Nancy Farmer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scholastic
Year published	2003-01-01
Number of pages	380
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