Alphabet Of Thorn - Hardcover

McKillip, Patricia A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441011306 ISBN 13: 9780441011308

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 2004

Synopsis

Working in the royal library as a translator, Nepenthe, a young orphan, becomes obsessed with a strange book, given to her by a young mage during the coronation of the new Queen of Raine and written in an unknown language of thorns, and discovers a volume that begins to reveal her destiny, one that entwines her fate with that of the young queen. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

Patricia A. McKillip is one of America's greatest fantasy authors. 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

About the Author:

Patricia A. McKillip is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, and the author of numerous novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Hardcover
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0441011306
• ISBN 13: 9780441011308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320