087930
London etc.
1995
15,5×24
tvrdi s omotom
349
engleski
Cijena: 10,00 EUR
This is a 1995 debut masterpiece by English author Nicholas Evans that became one of the best-selling books of all time. The narrative serves as an epic love story and a profound exploration of trauma, redemption, and the spiritual bond shared between humans and animals. The story opens in upstate New York, where teenage Grace Maclean and her horse, Pilgrim, are struck by a 40-ton truck on a snowy morning. Grace survives with a partially amputated leg and severe emotional trauma, while Pilgrim is left so physically and mentally mutilated that he becomes dangerously savage. Refusing to euthanize the horse—believing that if Pilgrim dies, Grace's spirit will too—Grace's mother, Annie, uproots their lives. She packs up her daughter and the traumatized horse to cross the country to Montana.In Montana, they seek out Tom Booker, a legendary "horse whisperer" renowned for his rare gift of understanding and healing troubled horses. The book was famously adapted into the 1998 feature film The Horse Whisperer, directed by and starring Robert Redford, alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and a young Scarlett Johansson.
