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National Book Award Winner!
This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments — and his own chilling role in them. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
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"Imaginative and important."
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Awards & Recognitions:
National Book Award Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Boston Globe--Horn Book Awards Winner, Fiction Category
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Awards, Honorable Mention
Julia Ward Howe Young Readers Award
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List
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Booklist Editors' Choice
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Top Ten
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Kirkus Reviews Editors' Choice
New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
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- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0763624020
- ISBN 13 9780763624026
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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