Biography
An experienced journalist, Elena Gallego Abad is the author of a series of novels about Dragal, the Galician dragon seeking to reincarnate in the body of a boy, Hadrián. The saga comprises five novels – Dragal I: The Dragon’s Inheritance (2010); Dragal II: The Dragon’s Metamorphosis (2011); Dragal III: The Dragon’s Fraternity (2012); Dragal IV: The Dragon’s Lineage (2015); Dragal V: The Dragon’s Secret (2019) – and films of the novels, together with other multimedia content, are planned. Elena Gallego Abad is the author of another novel, Seven Skulls (2014), which follows a journalist, Marta Vilas, as she investigates a case of multiple murder. The author is often described as the Galician J. K. Rowling and praised for being the first woman to write a crime novel in Galician.
Synopsis
Dragal I: The Dragon’s Inheritance (264 pages) is the first in a series of novels that tell the story of Dragal, the Galician dragon seeking to reincarnate in the body of a boy, Hadrián. Four more titles have been published in Galician – Dragal II: The Dragon’s Metamorphosis, Dragal III: The Dragon’s Fraternity, Dragal IV: The Dragon’s Lineage and Dragal V: The Dragon’s Secret – and films of the novels, together with other multimedia content, are currently in production.
Sample
The dragon’s shadow was everywhere, even though Hadrián was the only one who could sense its presence. The power of Dragal would soon become manifest, but, for those who were not aware of it, it was just another day like any other.
All the pupils in the class were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Miss Ermidas with the marks from the maths exam. They knew, as always, she would enter the classroom two minutes after the bell rang.
Not a second before or afterwards.
The old teacher arrived on time, clutching her folder to her chest. She slowly draped her red cardigan over the back of her chair and, having greeted the children in the room, began to pass the exam papers around the desks.
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