In the Night Garden

eBook, 502 pages

English language

Published 2006 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-553-90310-2
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OCLC Number:
496279575

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A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up Readers Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us-to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time-a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page.... Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girlspins stories to warm a curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop through each other and back again to meet in the tapestry of her voice. Inked on her eyelids, each twisting, tattooed tale is a piecein the puzzle of the girl's own hidden history. And what tales she tells Tales of shape-shifting witches and wild horsewomen, heron kings and beast princesses, snake gods, dog monks, and livingstars-each story more strange and fantastic than the one that came before. From ill-tempered "mermaid" to fastidious Beast, …

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