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Alphabet of Thorn (Mckillip, Patricia a) (Hardcover)
by Patricia A. McKillip (Author)
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Product details
  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Ace Books; 1 edition (Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0441011306
  • ISBN-13: 978-0441011308
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 812,937 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Patricia A McKillip is one of America's greatest fantasy authors, and Alphabet of Thorn joins a well-established canon of work. Her best known novels include Riddle-Master; World Fantasy Award-winner The Forgotten Beasts of Eld; World Fantasy Award and Mythopoeic Award-winner Ombria in Shadow; and In the Forests of Serre. Like its predecessors, Alphabet of Thorn demonstrates McKillip's mastery of prose and her knowledge of the human heart.

As an infant, Nepenthe was abandoned by her mother on the edge of a cliff so high no one can hear the sea below. Nepenthe was raised by the librarians of the Royal Library of Raine, and knows little of the outside world beyond what she reads. She has a gift for translation, and she alone has a chance of translating a newly arrived book, a mysterious tome written in an alien alphabet that resembles thorns. But Nepenthe has fallen in love with the high-born student-mage who brings her the book. And the thorns are exerting a strange power over her--a magic that may destroy not only Nepenthe, but the kingdom of Raine and the entire world. --Cynthia Ward

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