{"product_id":"the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-volume-3","title":"The Rose Field (The Book of Dust Volume 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman's bestselling The Book of Dust\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003esequence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eGabi's Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePhilip\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePullman’s book\u003ci\u003e The Rose Field\u003c\/i\u003e is the conclusion to Lyra Silvertongue’s journey, a saga that unfolded across six novels and nearly thirty years in trilogies known as \u003ci\u003eHis Dark Materials \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dust.\u003c\/i\u003e The collection’s cosmology is extraordinarily sophisticated in the subjects it takes on: the nature of consciousness, free will and the institutional capture of transcendence. Pullman understands young readers don’t need the philosophical apparatus to metabolise the profound, they simply live it through Lyra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePicking up directly from his previous novel in the series, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Commonwealth,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Field\u003c\/i\u003e carries Lyra east from Aleppo through Azerbaijan and across the Caspian Sea toward the desert of Karamakan, in a high-voltage adventure. The long-awaited reunion between her and her estranged daemon Pantalaimon is at the centre of the novel’s emotional architecture and every reader’s heart’s desire. \u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eI\u003c\/span\u003en \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Commonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e, Lyra now in higher education has fallen victim to a new “disease” or thinking that grips the young of her world. Pan, Lyra’s estranged daemon believes Lyras’s theorising has caused her to lose her imagination. Pan believes imagination is that which allows us to see connections between things otherwise invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe two characters have parted and are lost from one another. In their journey to reconnect, they simultaneously attempt to defeat the series villain, The Magisterium. The Magisterium performs experiments on children, declares states of emergency to suspend civil law, pollutes the air, destroys the seasons, displaces innocent people to profit from property development, and works executively to value extract through a corporation. This Magisterium’s purpose is dominion over meaning. The Silk Road setting in the novel is evocatively rendered, as are its memorable characters. Pullman has captured iconic cultural nuances with immense sensitivity and charm. Drawing on my own experience of growing up in the middle east, I can attest to their authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMerchant Mustafa Bey meets Lyra in one standout scene that demonstrates Pullman’s mastery. Lyra naively presents herself as a witch queen to mine Bey for information. Worldly-Wise, Bey the ever-gracious feline to Lyras arrogant mouse, demonstrates his reach and power through a fascinating gold coin trick. In under five minutes through a handful of verbal exchanges, Bey turns Lyras’s gold coin into multiples. In this small scene, Pullman shows us imagination at full capacity; the ability to read what is not said, to trace invisible lines of power and reveal trust and danger beneath the surface of an exchange. At the same time, he gently discloses his awareness of her identity as he demonstrates the historic and powerful operations of middle eastern mercantile trust networks. Lyra for once is caught while Bey reveals the connections she missed. The lesson is wordless and entirely merciful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLyra, even at her most powerless in dangerous circumstances retains the wild, instinctive morality that has always defined her and makes her beloved of readers. Growing into the given surname Silvertongue is central to the series arc. As readers we have followed the bright abandoned infant into her fraught adulthood with nothing but her heart to protect her. We understand the only thing Lyra had going for her was a bold spirit brave enough to talk her way out of desperation into agency. It is this authenticity that makes her a heroine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis final novel deliberately avoids clear explanations of the nature of Dust and the Rose Field, choosing to leave the reader with open questions. Perhaps mystery is the remaining engagement in a life vast and unknowable. However, in resolving the book’s central theme, we genuinely feel that imagination is not a childhood phase to be outgrown; it is the very richness of the lived experience. Lyra’s spirit, power and magnetism derive solely from her ability to fully invest herself with passion. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe novel’s closing disclosure about her fate is that she will “go on telling stories, I expect” is also Pans mission fulfilled. Imagination that lets us see invisible connections are what stories are for. This is a profoundly beautiful series, don’t let your children miss it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Blurb\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMarking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullman's remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in \u003ci\u003eNorthern Lights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Field \u003c\/i\u003eis the culmination of the cultural phenomenon of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dust \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHis Dark Materials.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen readers left Lyra in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret Commonwealth\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshe was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her - part of himself - in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her d mon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rose Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer. All around them, the world is aflame - made terrifying by fear, power and greed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and give them answers - on Dust, on the special roses, on imagination - so too does the Magisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Pullman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62739419168927,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0394\/7236\/5727\/files\/9780241458709.jpg?v=1774591489","url":"https:\/\/lanebook.com.au\/products\/the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-volume-3","provider":"The Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}