The Orphan’s Tales

✍ Scribed by Valente, Catherynne M.

• Book ID: 110156235
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Series: The Orphan’s Tales 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781435288911

✦ Synopsis

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 girl spins 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 piece in 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 living stars�each story more strange and fantastic than the one that came before. From ill-tempered �mermaid� to fastidious Beast, nothing is ever quite what it seems in these ever-shifting tales�even, and especially, their teller. Adorned with illustrations by the legendary Michael Kaluta, Valente�s enchanting lyrical fantasy offers a breathtaking reinvention of the untold myths and dark fairy tales that shape our dreams. And just when you think you�ve come to the end, you realize the adventure has only begun�.