The Dream Merchant (Works in Translation) - Hardcover

Hoving, Isabel; Velmans, Hester

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763628808 ISBN 13: 9780763628802

Publisher: Candlewick Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Having been called upon by an international corporation to perform a special task for them, Josh suddenly finds himself swept away on a high-stakes adventure that leads him to the heart of imagination with no idea how to break free from the lack of reality in which he now finds himself.

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Review:

"* "Here is a dreamtime so intense, so dangerous, you don't want it to end, ever." Michael Morpurgo, Children's Laureate 2003-2005. * "With cinematic vision, she evokes magical and intriguing worlds just as powerful as Tolkien's." De Morgen (Belgian newspaper)"

About the Author:

ISABEL HOVING was born in Amsterdam. She began her career as a secondary-school teacher, during which time she became very active in the Dutch women's movement. She eventually gave up her job to study literary theory full-time and spent some months in Senegal, West Africa, for a research project — an experience that gave her a completely different perspective on the world and that she describes as a turning point in her life. Now a lecturer at Leiden University, Isabel Hoving lives with her partner and son in Amsterdam.
HESTER VELMANS has translated a number of novels from Dutch into English, including THE LILY THEATER by Lulu Wand and Renate Dorrestein's A HEART OF STONE, which won the Vondel Prize for Dutch Translation. In addition, she has contributed to her parents' wartime memoirs - EDITH'S STORY by Edith Velmans and LONG WAY BACK TO THE RIVER KWAI by Loet Velmans — and has written a children's novel, ISABEL OF THE WHALES.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0763628808
• ISBN 13: 9780763628802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 630