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Shadow of a Hero
Peter Dickinson
出版
Open Road Media
, 2015-02-24
主題
Young Adult Fiction / Dystopian
Young Adult Fiction / Family / Multigenerational
Young Adult Fiction / Politics & Government
ISBN
1504003020
9781504003025
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1uQVBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
To save a country, a girl and her grandfather must learn what it means to be a hero
The greatest hero in the history of Varina was baptized in a cave. Every schoolchild knows the story. His parents were on their way to the city when a storm drove them to take shelter in the mountainside, along with a priest, a bandit, and a scholar. When the storm did not abate, they asked the priest to give their child a name, and he christened the boy Restaur Vax. The boy would grow to be a warrior, a scholar, and a man of god, and his name would lead an oppressed people to independence for the first time. Alas, that liberty would not survive.
Generations later, Vax’s oldest living descendant is in London, teaching the language of Varina to his inquisitive young granddaughter. When his homeland is torn apart once more by war, calls come for this man to take up the mantle of the Vax name—and become a hero for a new age.
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.