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The Subtle Knife
The second book in the HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
Having slipped through the window in the Aurora Borealis, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in a new world where she arrives in Cittagazze, a beautiful yet haunted city inhabited by soul-eating specters and run by children. Here she finds an ally in Will Parry, a 12-year-old boy from our own world who, in search of his missing father, stumbled into the strange world via another window leading from his own Oxford.Together, the pair forge ahead on a perilous journey between worlds teeming with witches, angels, and treachery to uncover a deadly secret: a weapon of extraordinary and devastating power. With each step they cannot overcome the greatest threat of all, and walk towards the shattering truth of their own destinies...
ISBN 0-3454-1336-9
Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy
The Subtle Knife
© 1997 Philip Pullman
Wide release, Scholastic Children's Books, 1997
Published in the U.S., Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1997
According to Philip Pullman the books have been released in 36 different languages including ; Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German,Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norweigan, Polish, Portugese, Servian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
