Walking the Tree - Softcover

Warren, Kaaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857660438 ISBN 13: 9780857660435

Publisher: Angry Robot, 2010

Synopsis

Botanica is an island, but almost all of the island is taken up by the Tree. Lillah has come of age and is now ready to leave her community and walk the tree for five years, learning all Botanica has to teach her. Can Lillah keep the huge secret she has been entrusted with, or will she have to resort to breaking the oldest taboo on Botanica?

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Review:

"Like walking from a dream into a mythical land both familiar and delightfully strange. A tale of tolerance and survival, in a fascinating and beautifully realised world." -Trudi Canavan, author of the Black Magician Trilogy "Kaaron Warren is a fresh, amazingly talented voice out of Australia. You *must* read her work." - Ellen Datlow "It is the setting that really makes the story and keeps the reader interested. The various communities of Botanica are well thought out and intriguing, and their differing attitudes towards disease, sex and the Tree constantly challenge Lillah's thoughts and beliefs. It also draws on our own awareness of humanity's evolution, and adds a sense of reality to the already convincing setting." - Total SciFi Online ""Walking the Tree"is an unpretentious, eye-opening experience. Dark but never dim, Karron Warren's first novel since she documented the psyche of a serial killer in her debut "Slights" is an insightful, earthy chronicle of diversity and understandings arrived at and remade. Hers is a voice that demands to be heard, and I don't doubt that this marvelous fable represents only the root of her talents." - Niall Alexander, " The Speculative Scotsman ." --//

.4;. I found myself simply enchanted by the world Warren has built and enjoyed the journey through it just as much as any plot put forth to guide my way ... readers who value the path as much as the destination will surely love this tale ... Immersive and lovely, it's a book to savor and revisit." - --www.owlcatmountain.blogspot.com, January 2011

About the Author:

Kaaron's award-winning short fiction has appeared in Year's Best Horror & Fantasy, the Poe and Haunted Legends anthologies, Fantasy magazine, Paper Cities, and many other venues in the US, Europe and Australia. Her short story A Positive has been made into a short film called Patience, and her first ever published short story White Bed was dramatised for the stage in Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Angry Robot
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0857660438
• ISBN 13: 9780857660435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• Illustrator: Bridges Greg