A Short Walk Through a Wide World: The spellbinding fantasy adventure - Softcover

Westerbeke, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529928265 ISBN 13: 9781529928266

Verlag: Vintage, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A spellbinding fantasy adventure that follows a young woman struck down by a mysterious curse, and her extraordinary journey in search of survival.

‘Races around the globe, through deserts and cities, across oceans’ OPRAH DAILY

The International Bestseller

***** READERS LOVE A SHORT WALK *****
‘A unique blend of adventure and fantasy’
‘You just cannot put the book down’
‘A true love letter to travel, adventure and discovery’
‘The world-building is amazing’
‘This book is incredible’
‘I loved every page of it’

Paris, 1885. On an otherwise ordinary night, Aubry Tourvel – spoiled, stubborn and nine years old – is suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness at the family dinner table.

When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, Aubry flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive.

She has no choice: she must run from this curse. And so begins her incredible lifelong journey across the world.

But with risk at every turn, what will it take for Aubry to survive?

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* As seen on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show Book Club *

‘An epic adventure…rich with all the possibilities the world can hold’ PEOPLE

‘Imagine Life of Pi and The Midnight Library rolled into one’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Dazzling… I savoured every page’ SHELBY VAN PELT

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Douglas Westerbeke is a librarian who lives in Ohio and works at one of the largest libraries in the US. He has spent the last decade on the local panel of the International Dublin Literary Award, which inspired him to write his own book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1529928265
• ISBN 13: 9781529928266
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien