Do not dance with death.
Luciana is a young chess player who will have to compete in one of the hardest games of her life. Little did she know that it would be up against death. She is a very responsible girl who is helping her friend Loreto overcome bulimia, but her ill-fated future is waiting to give her a bad experience. One night, Luciana and her friends Cinta, Santi and Máximo go to Pandora’s bar where they meet up with Raul who has just bought ecstasy pills from a dealer known as Poli García. Each pill has a crescent moon on its surface. Everyone in the group takes one, but Luciana is the only one to have a “bad trip”, loses consciousness and, ultimately, slips into a coma.
In hopes to help Luciana recover, her boyfriend and friends go on a quest in the city to find the dealer, Poli García, ask him what exactly was in the pills, and take this information to the doctors in order to save Luciana’s life.
They receive a tip-off, telling them that the dealer will be at Pope´s nightclub. The police detective Espinós, in charge of Luciana´s case, gets the same information and arrives with back up to snag the dealer as soon as he walks out of the nightclub. As soon as Poli García sees Luciana´s group of friends enter the club, he runs away. Eloy, Máximo, Santi, Cinta and two police officers follow after him. The dealer, frightened and distraught, slips and falls, hitting his head so hard on the pavement that the pills go flying into the sewer and he dies. They lose hope to figure out what was in the pills. However, something on the floor catches Cinta´s eye. She goes to show her friends, and in the palm of her hand is the sought-after pill, the one with a half-moon engraved on its surface.
Meanwhile, in the hospital, Luciana is battling death, and she is losing. However, her will power and the help of the doctors drive her back to consciousness, where she is reunited with her friends and looks back on her dark path towards death.
RELEVANT DATA: Strawberry Fields is inspired on the true stories of two 18-year-olds. Leah Betts, who died from overdose after five days in a coma, and Helen Cousins, who woke up after two months in a coma to say, “do no dance with death.” The novel is a long-seller with over eighty editions surpassing two hundred and fifty thousand copies sold. It is one of the most recommended books in high school today. In 2005 it was adapted to film and became a true box office hit in Spain for viewers of all ages.
The topic it addresses is very much present in today’s society and it is told in a way that allows the action to take place in any country. It also has very limited production costs, since there are few locations in which the action occurs.
Jordi Sierra I Fabra has published more than four hundred books, reaching sales figure revenues of up to ten million books sold across the world.
His extensive literary production has earned him some of the most important Awards in the sector. To highlight some: the El Barco de Vapor Award, Gran Angular Award, the Anaya Award, the Ateneo de Sevilla Award, the Edebé of Children and Young Adult literature Award, given to him on two occasions, theA la Orilla del Viento de México Award, the National Children and Young Adult Literature Award, the Cervantes Chico Award and the Iberoamerican of Children and Young Adult literature Award for his entire career. His books have been chosen to be a part of, on four occasions the «White ravens» selection of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek of Munich.
What the critics have said:
“Strawberry fields seemed to me a novel that was heartbreaking as it was beautiful. Both for its subject matter and for the way in which it is narrated, the book has a richness that is not always found in literature intended for young audiences.” Blogdelibros.com
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