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Sharp characterization and an unusual historical backdrop distinguish Park's charming leadoff to an intricate new fantasy series. In an alternate 18th-century world where England's been swamped by a tidal wave, America teems with blond savages and "Roumania" and Germany battle for European domination, a magic book concocted by conjuress Aegypta Schenck sends young Miranda Popescu, the "white tyger" descendant of ancient royalty and Roumania's hope of freedom from "black tyranny," to Massachusetts to escape the fiendish Baroness Nicola Ceausescu and the heinous elector of Ratisbon. With her best friend, Andromeda (turned magically into first a yellow dog and later a charismatic male Roumanian courtier), and her loyal teenage admirer, Peter ("really" the son of Roumania's bravest warrior), Miranda makes hard choices to start fulfilling her destiny. Park (Celestis, etc.) leaves some tantalizing loose ends, while the wily baroness and the necromancing elector promise dashing adventure and delicious heartbreak ahead. Blurbs from Ursula K. Le Guin and John Crowley testify to the novel's high quality.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Vaguely resembling contemporary Romania, Roumania is the alternate universe version of that eastern European nation. It commands a vast empire ruled by royal families, a special member of whom, Princess Miranda Popescu, spends her childhood in a castle by the sea. Fearing the political machinations of the mad baroness Ceaucescu, Miranda's aunt, Aegypt, uses arcane alchemy to spirit three-year-old Miranda into our universe and a seemingly secure life with adoptive middle-class parents in a quiet corner of Massachusetts. When grown to a willowy adolescence, and still haunted by memories of her distant homeland, Miranda is suddenly catapulted, along with her two best friends, into an alternate eighteenth-century New England after Baroness Ceaucescu finally unlocks the secrets of Aegypt's magic. The baroness then struggles to capture Miranda outright, and Miranda and her friends embark on a venture to cross the Atlantic; free Miranda's real mother, who is imprisoned in Germany; and return to their genuinely familiar surroundings. Park's enchanting and riveting tale deserves to win its way with fans of modern fantasy. Carl Hays
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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