The Book of Dust 3: The Rose Field

「萊拉，你找到那片沙漠裡的地方、那通往玫瑰之國的入口時，會怎麼做？」
「我會守護它，」萊拉說。「至死也要守護它。」

在《祕密聯邦》的結尾，讀者離開萊拉時，她孤身一人，身處荒廢城市的廢墟之中。潘塔萊蒙——她靈魂的一部分——離她而去，為尋回她遺失的想像力。萊拉離開牛津，踏上橫越世界的旅程，只為尋找她的靈獸。而忠誠的麥爾肯，也從家鄉啟程，沿著絲綢之路追尋萊拉的足跡……

在《玫瑰原野》中，他們的旅程終將交會——在最危險、最驚心動魄、也最改變世界的時刻。他們必須向間諜與竊賊、獅鷲與女巫、舊友與新知求助，一路學習真理儀所蘊藏的深奧與令人意外的真相。周圍的世界正燃燒，被恐懼、權力與貪婪所吞噬。

當他們往東前進，朝那座能讓他們重逢、並揭開塵埃、玫瑰與想像之謎的紅色建築前行時——教權勢力也正步步逼近，向萊拉所珍視的一切開戰。

在世界初次迎來菲利普・普曼筆下的非凡女主角萊拉・貝拉橫跨三十年後，《玫瑰原野》為《塵之書》與《黑暗元素三部曲》劃下壯闊的終章。

The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman’s bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . .


‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’

‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’

When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she 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 dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra . . .

In The Rose Field, 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.

As 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.

Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullman’s remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights, The Rose Field is the culmination of the cultural phenomenon of The Book of Dust and His Dark Materials.