The House of the Scorpion: Winner of the National Book Award 2002 and of the Buxtehuder Bulle 2003 (House of the Scorpion, The)
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Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested.
His DNA came from El Patrón, 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 Patrón. El Patrón 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 Patrón'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 Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.
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En sehr gutes Buch mit sehr guten Ideen, allerdings hätte sich die Autorin etwas mehr Zeit nehmen sollen, die Geschichte in Ruhe auszubauen. Sie hätte sehr gut eine Trilogie aus ihren Ideen machen können. Das Ende kommt zu plötzlich und passt nicht so recht zum ersten Teil der Erzählung. Nichtsdestotrotz: sehr lesenswert!
Description
Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested.
His DNA came from El Patrón, 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 Patrón. El Patrón 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 Patrón'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 Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.
Book Information
Posts
En sehr gutes Buch mit sehr guten Ideen, allerdings hätte sich die Autorin etwas mehr Zeit nehmen sollen, die Geschichte in Ruhe auszubauen. Sie hätte sehr gut eine Trilogie aus ihren Ideen machen können. Das Ende kommt zu plötzlich und passt nicht so recht zum ersten Teil der Erzählung. Nichtsdestotrotz: sehr lesenswert!