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El Constructor De árboles (2013)

by Chris Howard(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Minotauro

series

Rootless

review 1: Rootless is an YA adventure story set in a dystopian future. Seventeen-year-old Banyan lives alone in a world without trees or animals. He travels the desolate remains of the country, selling his skills as a tree sculptor (using scrap metal, wires, glass and lighting) to the wealthy. The world-building is great, including a little Rastafarianism. The language and imagery are vivid, the characters are colorful and larger than life, there is lots of action, and even, a love story. The author's creativity extends to social and environmental issues too, such as the evil corporation, GenTech, which controls the food supply (genetically-engineered corn, immune to the marauding locusts) and kills anyone who tries to steal from them. Banyan sets off to find his father, gets dera... moreiled by pirates, and eventually finds allies to try to regenerate real trees to save the world. I am mystified as to why the recently-published sequel is not in local libraries.
review 2: Rootless is about a futuristic America, where locusts have plagued the entire country, resulting in no vegetation, no trees, bad oxygen, bad wind storms, and the only thing to eat is chemically enhanced corn that the government controls and if you try to grow it yourself, you're killed. This sounds terrible, but Banyan decided to create beauty out of the scraps. He builds metal forests with his dad, that is until his father is taken. The rest of the story is about Banyan trying to find Zion, a promise land filled with trees and the place where his father is being held. I just really liked the originality of this novel. I've never really read something like it. less

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