The Lost Island
- 198 páginas
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Whoever can discover the lost island will find a reward and great secrets.
Eilís Dillon fue una prolífica autora irlandesa celebrada por sus diversas contribuciones literarias, que abarcan libros infantiles, relatos de detectives y extensas novelas históricas. Su escritura a menudo se basó en la herencia irlandesa, explorando frecuentemente temas relacionados con la independencia y la historia de Irlanda. Dillon tejió hábilmente tramas intrincadas con una profunda comprensión de la naturaleza humana, obteniendo tanto la aclamación de la crítica como un amplio público lector. Su habilidad para crear personajes vívidos y entornos inmersivos la estableció como una voz significativa en la literatura irlandesa.






Whoever can discover the lost island will find a reward and great secrets.
SUMMARY: When Pat and Danny visit the Island of Horses their grandmother told about,they discovered it to be a wonderful secret place, with storm ruined houses, a mountain, and beautiful wildhorses, just as she had said. When they steal one of the horses to bribe a mean shopkeeper intoconsenting to his daughter's marriage to one oftheir clan, they discover that other people,willing to do murder, are alsointerested in the island.
If there was one creature the people of the island hated it was the fox. Foxes were not only destructive, they were evil; they brought bad luck; some people even said they could change themselves into human beings. Patsy and his friends felt the same until the day they dragged two exhausted animals from the sea and then realized that they were foxes - strange grey creatures, not the red foxes of the island, but foxes all the same. The animals were silver foxes and they had been on their way to the Zoo at Dublin when a storm blew up and they were lost overboard. Everyone on the island heard this on the radio, but only Patsy, Séamus, Michael and Colm knew that the foxes had reached land. The creatures were an enormous responsibility. They needed food and shelter, and above all they had to be kept hidden - in a community where everyone's affairs were known to everyone else. The boys' struggle to care for their difficult charges makes a most exciting and sympathetic story, with a vividly described and fascinating background of island life.
Dobrodružný román irské autorky vypráví o dvou chlapcích, kteří slýchali z babiččina vyprávění o nedalekém ostrově Divokých koní, neobydleném ostrově opředeném strašidelnými pověstmi. Jednou neodolají touze podobrodružství a na tento ostrov se vypraví. Tato původně tajná chlapeckávýprava se stane počátkem řady událostí, které chlapce proslaví.