Messenger

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978-0-385-73253-6
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Messenger is a 2004 young adult fiction by author Lois Lowry. It forms the third installment of The Giver Quartet, which was begun by her 1993 Newbery Medal-winning novel The Giver. Messenger takes place about eight years after the events of The Giver and about six years after the events of Gathering Blue. Characters from both of the previous books reappear in Messenger and give the novels a stronger continuity. Set in an isolated community, known simply as Village, Messenger focuses upon a boy, Matty, who serves as message-bearer through the ominous and lethal Forest that surrounds the community.

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Questa serie continua a non appassionarmi particolarmente. Ho trovato questo terzo volume allo stesso livello del secondo, La rivincita. Gathering blue. Cioè, con qualche elemento buono, ma nel complesso poco convincente. Qui ritroviamo Jonas, Kira, Christopher e Matt (diventato Matty). Jonas è diventato il Capo di una comunità fondata sull'uguaglianza e sull'aiuto reciproco. Ma qualcosa sta incrinando l'equilibrio e la solidarietà degli abitanti del Villaggio. Il misterioso baratto pare corrompere le persone. E come? Be', non lo sappiamo per certo, come al solito in questa serie, l'autrice si limita a «farci intuire» cosa accada. Kira è sostanzialmente sempre la stessa. Tesse le storie che «vede» nel futuro ed è fiera di zoppicare. Ha solo migliorato questo suo dono, che è diventato più preciso. Christopher, amico di Jonas, è il Veggente, cioè a causa della sua cecità ha affinato l'altra vista e sembra non rimpiangere affatto i suoi occhi. I …

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The last two books in this series ([b:The Giver|3636|The Giver (The Giver, #1)|Lois Lowry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1342493368l/3636.SY75.jpg|2543234] and [b:Gathering Blue|12936|Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)|Lois Lowry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388195391l/12936.SY75.jpg|2134456]) were completely different stories involving distinct characters and set in different locales. This is the book that brings those two together: we get to meet Jonas again, and Matty, and Kira, and Kira’s father.

In the first two books, the villages started out feeling idyllic and utopian, but as we got deeper into the story, we discovered that things weren’t as they appeared and it wasn’t all sunshine and roses. In this one, the village IS an idyllic utopia, but something happens that corrupts everything.

And all I can say is... wow. It’s amazing. It shows us that, no matter how perfect things are at the outset, human beings will always screw it up with their own selfish greed. Something’s going seriously wrong in …