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Almost two decades afterwards Philip Pullman completed the fantasy alternation His Dark Materials, the acclaimed British columnist has amorphous a new leash blue-blooded The Book of Dust. The aboriginal volume, “La Belle Sauvage,” accustomed this anniversary with an astronomic aboriginal press in the United States of 500,000 copies. The adventure takes readers aback 10 years to aback the heroine, Lyra Belacqua, was a drop baby. Aback adversity strikes England, a adventurous boy alleged Malcolm Polstead is bent to save her.
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[Review: Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an arresting prequel to His Dark Materials]
Pullman batten with The Washington Post about his new alternation via Skype. This account has been edited for accuracy and length.
Q: Aback did you apperceive that you capital to revisit Lyra’s story?
A: I accept it was about the year 2005. That was aback I wrote a little book alleged “Lyra’s Oxford,” which showed Lyra at the age of about 15 or 16. I apparent some absorbing things in that adventure that fabricated me appetite to analyze her apple a bit more. So that set the arena for it. And that was a little — I don’t apperceive how to put it — a little ragbag of a book, a book abounding of $.25 and pieces, and one of the $.25 and pieces that I put into that book was a affected aircraft advertisement, for a aircraft line, announcement a boating to the eastern Mediterranean. And, I thought, “There’s a starting point for something.” So, that’s area we’re activity to go in the additional book. And, eventually to axial Asia.
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Q: You gave Lyra your old allowance in Oxford. Did you accord Malcolm annihilation of castigation as well?
A: Malcolm is actual acceptable with his hands. He’s actual absorbed in automated things and how things work, and that’s article of me. He’s braver than I am — absolutely braver than I was aback I was his age. And I never had a boat. I’d admired to accept had a boat, but I never did. So I gave him some qualities of abundance that I’ve had and one or two things that I haven’t got.
Q: Who were you best aflame to revisit besides Lyra?
A: Hannah Relf is addition who appears abreast the alpha and abreast the end of His Dark Materials. She’s a woman whom I like actual abundant and addition I account a abundant deal. I was animated to accord her a allotment that’s important in “La Belle Sauvage.” She lends Malcolm books, and she’s absorbed in his life, his thoughts, his education. Her appearance pays accolade to an old adult who had a big abode in the apple that I acclimated to alive in aback I was a boy. She took an absorption in me, and she let me borrow books from her library. She had books on every bank — bookcases all through her house. She actual abundantly accustomed me to appear and borrow a brace of books every week. She didn’t acquaint me, “Oh no, you can’t accept that, dear. That’s not for you.” She said, “Take annihilation you like. Read annihilation you like. We’ll allocution about it aback you accompany it back.” I anticipation that was so nice, so I gave that allotment to Hannah Relf.
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Q: How does it feel to address about assurance in a time aback it seems as admitting bluntness isn’t the best important quality?
A: These are aberrant times, aren’t they? We’re in a political apple like annihilation I can bethink — area the actual abstraction of accuracy is aloof jettisoned and fabricated a apology of. There’s a actual acceptable little book by the American philosopher Harry Frankfurt alleged “On Bulls---.” He explains in this book the aberration amid accuracy and lies and bulls---. The being who tells the accuracy needs to apperceive area the accuracy is so he can acquaint the truth. The being who is a cheat needs to apperceive area the accuracy is so he can abstain it. But the bulls----er doesn’t affliction because it’s a achievement — it’s all an act. He doesn’t affliction if bodies accept him or not. He aloof says it because it’s fun and it’s an act. That’s the apple we’re in now, and it’s a actual aberrant affectionate of world.
Q: As in “His Dark Materials,” anniversary appearance in “The Book of Dust” has a daemon, an mystical beastly counterpart. What’s your daemon?
A: My apparition is a raven. She’s a bird of the babble family. Could be a babbler or a jackdaw, or a jay, I suppose, but I anticipate she’s a raven. She’s a scruffy, austere visaged old bird that’s contemptuous and sharp-beaked, but she’s absolutely wise, and she’s apparent a lot, and she’s fundamentally affectionate underneath. But she’d never let you apperceive that.
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Savannah Stephens works for the Style area of The Washington Post.
The Book of Dust
La Belle Sauvage, Vol. 1
By Philip Pullman
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