- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; First Edition edition (11 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192719424
- ISBN-13: 978-0192719423
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,563,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A startling, poetic, and gripping story
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Paris is on a trek in the Himalayas with her uncle and her uncle's friends. On the way they come across a young Tibetan monk, Tahr, who reluctantly joins their party as his protector has died in an accident. As the trek progresses, Paris realizes the true reason for the journey - her uncle and his friends are a strange, gourmet dining club, dedicated to hunting down and eating the rarest possible animals. So when they discover a young yeti-like creature, who is very nearly human herself, Tahr convinces Paris that they have a duty to protect her, come what may. BLPhilip Gross is a well-known poet for both adults and children, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The story revolves around three young people from utterly different backgrounds. Only two of them are human.
Their lives change forever when they are thrown together and each learns something about themselves and about the others. The reader does too, and it's like remembering something you'd forgotten.
Philip Gross packs his prose with powerful description of place and feeling and tells a story that lets you into the minds and landscape you've never seen before in just over 200 pages.
The story isn't about war, or saving the planet or what makes us human but it deftly sheds light on just such things without seeming to have set out to do so. A scene can be sketched out in a few lines, and fire up a picture in the mind as vivid as a dream - before you've even realised it.
It's a completely gripping tale. I would look up from reading, surprised by the familiar things around me.
Very imaginative, very real, very different.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A really neat idea, with lots of atmospheric description. I thought Paris was a well-rounded character, who developed throughout the book. It made me want to visit the Himalayas!
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