Advent - Hardcover

Treadwell, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451661649 ISBN 13: 9781451661644

Publisher: Atria Books, 2012

Synopsis

A drowning, a magician’s curse, and a centuries-old secret.

1537. A man hurries through city streets in a gathering snowstorm, clutching a box in one hand. He is Johann Faust, the greatest magician of his age. The box he carries contains a mirror safeguarding a portion of his soul and a small ring containing all the magic in the world. Together, they comprise something unimaginably dangerous.

London, the present day. Fifteen-year-old Gavin Stokes is boarding a train to the countryside to live with his aunt. His school and his parents can’t cope with him and the things he sees, things they tell him don’t really exist. At Pendurra, Gavin finds people who are like him, who see things too. They all make the same strange claim: magic exists, it’s leaking back into our world, and it’s bringing something terrible with it.

First in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy, Advent describes how magic was lost to humanity, and how a fifteen-year-old boy discovers that its return is his inheritance. It begins in a world recognizably our own, and ends an extraordinarily long way from where it started—somewhere much bigger, stranger, and richer.

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Review:

"Treadwell makes marvels from the simplest materials--a blooming rose, a rowan walking stick, a traditional carol--and brings his landscape to frightening and fascinating life. Readers of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner will rejoice to find the first of a new trilogy worthy of sharing their shelf." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Ripe with literary language and classical references, Treadwell's novel shape-shifts between bewitchingly perplexing and supernaturally entertaining." --Kirkus

"Its classic story of good versus evil as well as its haunting characters ad rich, inspired imagery will remain with readers long after they turn the final page." --Library Journal

"A stunning debut." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discover of Witches

Book Description:

Magic is returning - and the world will be utterly changed. The first of a debut fantasy trilogy by the most exciting new talent of the decade.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1451661649
• ISBN 13: 9781451661644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 451