City of Masks (Stravaganza) - Hardcover

Hoffman, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747555338 ISBN 13: 9780747555339

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

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'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down. This is one of the best time slip stories that I have read in recent years. Without doubt a masterwork of contemporary children's literature' Edgardo Zaghini, Children's Literature Officer, Booktrust

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'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down. This is one of the best time-slip stories that I have read in recent years. Without doubt a masterwork of contemporary children's literature.' - Edgardo Zaghini, Children's Literature Officer, Booktrust. This is a fantastic first novel in a trilogy. Set in a parallel world, in an Italy that in this world is called Talia and in a Venice that in this world is called Bellezza, the narrative follows Lucien, who in this world is ill with cancer. Given a marbled notebook to help him communicate when his throat hurts too much to speak, this notebook is the means that transports Lucien to this magical, dangerous new world. This is a world which is set in the C16, and thrills to the delight of political intrigue, including assassination attempts both foiled and successful. The parallel Venice is astonishingly evoked, with the silks and velvets, the sensuousness of the food and the elegance of the city and its waterways all beautifully and powerfully described. The world of Talia is unforgettably and convincingly real.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0747555338
• ISBN 13: 9780747555339
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352