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Search - The Ghost Drum: Book 1 of the Ghost World Sequence (Volume 1)

The Ghost Drum Book 1 of the Ghost World Sequence - Volume 1
Author: Susan Price

The Carnegie Medal winning modern classic. On a Midwinter night, a shaman demands a new-born baby girl from her slave-mother - and carries the child away in a hut that stalks across the snow on chicken legs. The new-born son of the Czar is imprisoned, for life, in a tiny room at the top of a tall tower because the Czar is afraid his son will out... more »do him. The slave?s daughter, and the princeling, both long for freedom but their search for it earns them vicious enemies - the ruthless Princess Margaretta, and Kuzma, the shape-shifting bear-shaman. Can the slave's-daughter and the prince survive? This classic novel, winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, is now available again as a large 'trade' paperback. Suitable for readers of 9 to teenage./p> "Whenever you poke your nose round the door, pack courage, and leave fear at home." The Ghost Drum is an original fairy-tale of shamans, shape-shifters, magic-battles, slaves and kings, set against darkness, Arctic cold, starlight and the brilliant jewel colours of folk-art. REVIEWS A find for lovers of folklore and fantasy. The Kirkus Review Price provides an icy, intense setting for her fantasy, which haunts almost as much as her unique characters. When she describes how, ?the sky stars glitter in their darkness, and the snow-stars glisten in their whiteness, and between the two there hangs a shivering curtain of cold twilight,? readers will know they are in the palm of a writer whose magical eye for detail matches her ability to draw a story sweeping in scope. - Booklist A spell is indeed cast over the reader: ?Words can alter sight and hearing, taste, touch and smell. Used with a higher skill they can make our senses clearer.? Susan Price is happily blessed with this higher skill; it is the clarity of her prose which particularly impresses. It is difficult for an individual to attempt a form sharpened and clarified by generations of story tellers ? a folk tale brightens with use and all the extraneous material wears away over the years. There is nothing out of place in THE GHOST DRUM: as in a spell every word counts: ?The alphabet in the book spells out words you can say, but the alphabet in the drum spells out things that can never be said.? The reverberations of this new-minted myth continue to echo after the story?s finished. - Mary Cutler Susan Price is an acclaimed author of over 60 books, which have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Russian. She has won several awards, including the Carnegie and the Guardian, and has been short-listed for the Whitbread. She is a founder member of the Authors Electric Collective (Find them on-line.) Visit her Amazon Author Page to find out more about her books, and links to her website and blogs.

ISBN-13: 9780992820428
ISBN-10: 0992820421
Publication Date: 11/20/2014
Pages: 138
Edition: 2
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Publisher: PriceClan
Book Type: Paperback
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