![]() ![]() ![]() Baruch dies in combat with a group of angels loyal to the Magisterium and its leader, Regent Metatron. Will escapes the city using the subtle knife, an artifact so thin that it can slice through the fabric of space-time and open doors into other worlds. The angels work for the angel Lord Asriel, who hopes to destroy the Magisterium. Meanwhile, angels Baruch and Balthamos have imprisoned Will in a city called Cittagazze in a parallel reality. Lyra has a lucid dream in which she meets her dead friend, Roger, in the underworld and promises to save him. Coulter fears that the Magisterium will kill Lyra, having determined that she is implicated in a prophecy that states she will trigger the second fall of man. Coulter, her mother and a double agent for the Magisterium. At the beginning of the novel, Lyra is imprisoned by Mrs. The novel was named the Children’s Book of the Year by the British Book Awards in 2001 and was the first children’s book to be nominated as a contender for the Man Booker Prize. The story follows the series’ protagonists, Lyra and Will, who struggle to overthrow an authoritarian, fanatically religious government called the Magisterium as it tries to seize control over all of the parallel universes and their human and non-human inhabitants. The third book in the trilogy His Dark Materials, it takes place after The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife. The Amber Spyglass is a 2000 fantasy novel for young adults by English author Philip Pullman. ![]()
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