 ...A book is like a garden carried in the pocket... Chinese Proverb
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THE FORESHADOWING
by
MARCUS SEDGWICK
Książka używana, w języku angielskim Stan książki: bdb-
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 278
Rok wydania: 2006
It was then that I saw the raven. It was a huge bird, and at first I could only marvel at its beauty. The blackness of its feathers was perfect. It fixed an eye on me and put its head on one side, and only then did I see what it was standing on. It spoke in the voice of the dead upon which it was feeding. 'You!' it said. 'You alone saw the horror of war, and wept when we did not believe you.' It is 1915. Sasha Fox is seventeen years old. She lives a privileged life. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, cannot avoid the war, and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, corpse worms crawling over the faces of soldiers soon to die. And worse, they show her what will happen to Edgar and Tom. Like the prophetess Cassandra, who witnessed a different war on the plains of Troy, Sasha is trapped by her tragic power. Cursed by a fate too awful to bear - for who wants to see the end of their own story...? Marcus Sedgwick has worked in children's publishing for ten years and before that he was a bookseller. He is also a stone carver and wood engraver. His first book Floodland was hailed as 'a dazzling debut from a new writer of exceptional talent' and won the Branford Boase Award for the best first children's novel of 2000. Since then he has written Witch Hill, published in 2001, and The Dark Horse, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award. Most recently his sequence, The Book of Dead Days and The Dark Flight Down, has confirmed his standing as 'a compelling storyteller'.
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