Duna – Eng – Muriel Villanueva

Duna’s Diaries

This may be the book of your life!

More than 40.000 readers already know Duna.
Will you miss it?

For many people, this turns out to be the book that awakens the long-awaited love of reading. Sovint, it is also converted into a capçalera reading, a text to read and read again. Fins i tot, many people affirm that this is the free of life. Will you miss it?

Duna has become a phenomenon in schools and institutes. Every year, thousands of readers go to bed. Many of them, moreover, receive the author’s visit to their educational center in order to talk about the themes that the reading proposes: the awakening of adolescence, empathy, friendship, family, pain and, above all, gender identity and first love.

But if everything happens soon, the Dunes novel will be kept at the Premi Llibreter, quite an honor!

You can know more and read the first capitols at:

Duna’s Books

You will find clothes, bags, cups… and more at:

Duna’s Things

More than 40.000 readers

Written in a daily format, ideal for easy reading and engaging readers

Emotions and pre-adolescence

Friends, plans. The first love The first confrontations with the family. The summer of awakening

Present in many school plans

High literary value. Great affinity with the reader. Deep values and cross-curricular connections

«Beneath the apparent simplicity of La Duna’s holiday diary, this little wonder tells us about the cocktail of emotions and sensations that overwhelm us when we leave childhood behind. With beautiful prose, Duna glosses us in a natural, believable and fluid way, the first love, the first period, the first confrontation with the mother and the discovery of the fragility of adults.»

Clijcat, on the occasion of the Atrapallibres Prize.

«Muriel’s pen is impeccable, intimate, small and goes straight to the heart. The characters take shape as you turn the pages. Everything works, there is no thread left unstitched.»

Paula Jarrín, Al·lots bookstore.

«Duna is one of those books that is here to stay and to be a classic. Muriel Villanueva achieves the perfect tone, content, and form to invite children to think, feel, and empathize with what others feel.»

Fe Fernández, L’Espolsada Llibres.

«Emotions running high are contagious; they leap off the page and find their way straight into the reader’s heart.»

Sílvia Cantos.

«Duna promises to become a true point of reference for young people going through this stage of life.»

EDAI (Child Development and Care Team).

«In a nutshell: a delight.»

Joan Bustos, Faristol

(Children’s and Young Adult Book Magazine,
published by the Catalan Council for Children’s and Young Adult Books).

«Muriel Villanueva now offers us a young adult novel that captivates from the protagonist’s opening statement.»

Isabel Robles, El Levante.

«When I was a teenager, I had so many questions, and this book would have given me many of the answers. It’s a point of reference, a guide. A way to explore without being lectured.»

Dolors Cabrera, Catorze.

«Duna is a mosaic of small but powerful stories. Duna is a collage of unforgettable characters. Duna is a kaleidoscope of experiences and emotions. Duna is a wave of words that sweeps us along, inviting us to accompany its protagonist through a month of summer. Duna is a novel that, in a way, is completed by our own gaze. Every Duna is different: yours, mine, theirs…»

Marc Alabart, book club facilitator

«Today we finished reading Duna with our Year 7 class, and the whole class ended up applauding. I have a lump in my throat and I’m incredibly moved. Lately, it’s been difficult to capture young people’s attention, to find books they enjoy and that encourage them to keep reading, but Duna has managed to do just that. They all asked if there’s going to be a sequel, and I already have a waiting list for the copy we have in the library. I’m so happy, and I wanted to share this moment with you.»

Maribel Torroella, teacher at Institut S’Agulla (Blanes)

«A diary that many readers had been eagerly awaiting, the sequel to Duna, but one that can be read entirely on its own. Dunes hooks readers just as much because it’s a fantastic book. A highly recommended read by an author, Muriel Villanueva, who I think is already far more than simply well known.»

Anna Guitart, Els matins de TV3.

«I highly recommend this excellent young adult novel: a coming-of-age story, a celebration of the beauty of adolescence, and a call to awaken our ecological awareness. […] Without a doubt, she is a writer that anyone who loves books and great stories should read.»

Sílvia Cantos.

«If Muriel Villanueva has done it again, then that’s all that needs to be said. The challenge of writing a sequel to Duna was no easy feat. Weaving together so many themes, making them flow, keeping readers hooked, making you reconnect with your teenage self, making it impossible to stop reading… Great literature knows no age, but if you have young people in your life, give them this book. Fantastic illustrations by Ferran Orta.»

Fe Fernández, L’Espolsada llibres.

«Dunes, by definition, is even more than Duna. […] All of this is an expression of the same vital impulse: to love and to be loved. The raw material is a credible first-person voice, frank and unfiltered, discovering the world as she questions it (or perhaps the other way around), consistent and effortlessly delivering dozens of lines to savour.»

Joan Bustos, Clijcat.

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