The Bone Fire
( Hungarian - Máglya - 2014 )
novel by György Dragomán
translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Published: Mariner Books - trade paperback - 2021
ISBN: 0544527208 / 9780544527201
Mariner Books - e-book - 2021
eISBN: 0544527216 / 9780544527218
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Blackstone Publishing - audio MP3 CDs - 2021
ISBN: 0358451183 / 9780358451181
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Blackstone Publishing - audio CDs - 2021
166478375X / 9781664783751
HMH Audio - audio download - 2021
ISBN: 0358451280 / 9780358451280
synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems unending. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met.
While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma - like a witch's apprentice - comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband. This, however, is not the main reason her grandmother is treated with suspicion and contempt by most people in town. They suspect her or her husband of having been involved in the disappearance of top secret government files.
As Emma learns her family history, she begins to see that, for her grandparents, the alternate reality shaped by magic was their only form of freedom.
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( Hungarian - Máglya - 2014 )
novel by György Dragomán
translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Published: Mariner Books - trade paperback - 2021
ISBN: 0544527208 / 9780544527201
Mariner Books - e-book - 2021
eISBN: 0544527216 / 9780544527218
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Blackstone Publishing - audio MP3 CDs - 2021
ISBN: 0358451183 / 9780358451181
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Blackstone Publishing - audio CDs - 2021
166478375X / 9781664783751
HMH Audio - audio download - 2021
ISBN: 0358451280 / 9780358451280
synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems unending. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met.
While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma - like a witch's apprentice - comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband. This, however, is not the main reason her grandmother is treated with suspicion and contempt by most people in town. They suspect her or her husband of having been involved in the disappearance of top secret government files.
As Emma learns her family history, she begins to see that, for her grandparents, the alternate reality shaped by magic was their only form of freedom.
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