The Wind Singer
Language: English
Published by Mammoth 2000 First Edition First Printing, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Porcupine Books, Ilford, United KingdomPorcupine Books
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Mammoth 2000 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, lower front corner bruised, some page top corners slightly bumped and creased and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear near the fold tips. ''In the walled city state of Amaranth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer. '' First in the acclaimed trilogy.
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- Title
- The Wind Singer
- Author
- William Nicholson
- Publisher
- Mammoth 2000 First Edition First Printing
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0749741961
- ISBN 13
- 9780749741969
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Review
Kestrel and Bowman Hath are twins, and we first meet them on the day their baby sister is about to take her first test. She fails, but the family is disgraced further when Kestrel is labelled as a "wild child" and is sent to Special Teaching--a place from which she may never escape--and her father is banished to the Residential Study Course. But Kestrel has met the Emperor, and he told her the history of the Wind Singer--the monument that overlooks the city but no longer has a voice.
What follows is an intense adventure following the children as they embark on a dangerous journey beneath the city and through the Underlake--a stinking lake of decomposing matter that is bigger than Aramath itself and is inhabited by the real, and sometimes extremely dangerous, underclasses--as they search for the Wind Singer's voice. The journey leads them to the very heart of the evil that has taken control of the city, and with their new friend, Mumpo, in tow, they endeavour to wade through the darkness in their extraordinary search for truth.
The Wind Singer is a truly imaginative, fantastical and distinctive adventure story that grips from the very beginning and absolutely refuses to let go, even at the very end of the book. Cinematic in his approach (the descriptions of the people and places are indeed so large and vivid that you can almost smell them as well as imagine them), William Nicholson taps into the nerve centre of the reader, introducing characters that invoke passion--and compassion--and putting them in situations that are at times so intense that it is almost possible to imagine you are there with them as they wade through the dangerous underbelly of their world in the hunt for light.
As challenging as it is entertaining, The Wind Singer is a book that will surely make its mark on the memory of the reader, and will appeal as much to adults who enjoy fantasy writing as it will to younger readers. Age 11 and over. --Susan Harrison
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