Isaac is an orphan. At fifteen years old, he has not yet found his niche on Erato. Unless he does so, he will face deportation - and certain death. Isaac has a plan to make his future safe. It involves importing Eleanor, a stone carver from a distant planet. But Eleanor is not what Isaac expects. She is not what anyone expects. She is free-thinking and defiant, and her presence could be more than this strange, dusty planet can bear...
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As always, Jan mark gives us a compelling, thought provoking read. the hard won kindness and thoughtless cruelty of human nature are brought to the fore in a deceptively quiet, calm book. But throughout, like the characters themselves, you can feel a growing unease, and seething intolerance and fear just below the surface. In many ways I preffered this book to "the dispossessed", as it shows how terribly ideologies like "one man, one job" can become twisted into a societies where bribery, extorsion and forced deportation (with a hellish, prison like two year voyage back to a dangerously unstable "home") are the norm.
As with the later "eclipse of the century", at first it appears that Mark has not finished this book: we are left with so much to resolve. But in reflection it is the only way it could have ended, with the reader hoping against hope that everything will be alright, knowing that in truth the inevitible will come to pass.
this book is far too good to be reserved exclusively for children, it deserves to be read by all.
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Jan Mark is one of the most interesting and versetile children's asuthors around (her picture book Haddock one of the funniest ever written) but The Ennead almost too good for children. It's set on a bleak planet, Erato, with an orphan boy called Isaac. Unless he can find work, he will face deportation. DIsmissed as an idiot he is as shrewd as the hero in fairytales, and thinks of getting his master to employ a sculptor to make something out of the huge lump of stone in the "garden".
But Eleanor is not what he expects. Bolshy, aggressive and a true artist she forces Isaac to think for the first time where his loyalties lie, and what it means to be human.
Written with a spae elegance and humour, the portrait of a world in which Earth is destroyed and fertility more precious than gold, it's as good as Ursula le Guin's The Dispossessed.
But Eleanor is not what he expects. Bolshy, aggressive and a true artist she forces Isaac to think for the first time where his loyalties lie, and what it means to be human.
Written with a spae elegance and humour, the portrait of a world in which Earth is destroyed and fertility more precious than gold, it's as good as Ursula le Guin's The Dispossessed.
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