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| Auteur | Tower, S. D. |
| Titel | The Assassins of Tamurin |
| Uitgever | Eos |
| Genre | SF / Fantasy |
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| Editie | 2003 - pocket - 468 p. |
| ISBN nummer | 9780380806218 |
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Redelijk |
| Beschrijving staat | (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
| Gewicht | 229 gram |
| Past door brievenbus (Ja/Nee) | Nee |
| Prijs | € 4,00 |
| Omschrijving | Cast out from her native village, 11-year-old Lale finds a surrogate mother in the charismatic Despotana of Tamurin who maintains a school for orphaned girls. There Lale finds a home and a profession that may cost her everything...
The voice of an extraordinary new fantasist sings out strong and true in this epic and magical tale of intrigue, forbidden love, and shocking betrayal in a wondrous, barbaric realm where beauty is a weapon . . . and treachery an art.
The river god had spared the infant girl the villagers found drifting on a boat with a dead man and dying woman, so the superstitious townsfolk believed it would be a sacrilege to let the child die as well. The name Lale, meaning "lucky," is the last good thing they give her, and she grows up abused, unloved, and resented - until, at age eleven, she comes to the attention of Makina Seval, "Mother Midnight," the absolute ruler of the Despotate of Tamurin. Enrolled in Three Springs, the Despotana's special school for orphaned and unwanted girls, young Lale finally finds what she has always coveted: respect, affection, community... a home.
But Three Springs is an institution of dark and shadowy purpose, a place where the wards of Mother Midnight are trained to become perfect spies and cold-blooded, ruthlessly efficient killers. And Lale has learned her lessons well. At age twenty, she stands poised to play her role in the Despotana's grandest scheme: vengeance... |
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