The Iron Tree - Dart-Thornton, Cecilia
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Jarred, a young man of the desert people, longs to know the history of his mysterious father, who departed years earlier, leaving behind a token - an amulet for Jarred that he has worn always. Some say it brings more than a bit of good luck his way, for no harm has ever befallen the boy. The young man journeys into the world to seek his fortune and perhaps along the way find news of his father. In his travels he will come to a place so unlike his own as to boggle his mind--a region of immense tracts of waterways and marshes, where the very air seems to teem with magic and a people surrounded…mehr

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Jarred, a young man of the desert people, longs to know the history of his mysterious father, who departed years earlier, leaving behind a token - an amulet for Jarred that he has worn always. Some say it brings more than a bit of good luck his way, for no harm has ever befallen the boy. The young man journeys into the world to seek his fortune and perhaps along the way find news of his father. In his travels he will come to a place so unlike his own as to boggle his mind--a region of immense tracts of waterways and marshes, where the very air seems to teem with magic and a people surrounded by creatures fey and not, with enough strange customs and superstitions to make his head swirl. And to the beautiful Lilith, a woman who will haunt his dreams and ultimately steal his heart...who perhaps can provide a key to his heritage. Author's Note: Do you love to become lost in fantasy realms where every object, tradition, and belief is meticulously crafted from the ground up? Then settle in. 'The Iron Tree' isn't a fast-paced romp across familiar fantasy landscapes. Instead, it's a deep, immersive dive into a magical, pre-industrial society. You'll discover a world built not just on epic plotlines, but on the details that make a society feel real. That's why you might find a football described as 'a goat-skin stuffed with fibrous material'. Sound a bit over-accurate and nerdy? That's because it is. Grounding the story in culturally relevant terms offers a richer, more authentic experience. If you enjoy intricate world-building and deep-seated lore, you will find your home among the people of Tir. CRITICAL REVIEWS: 'Cecilia Dart-Thornton exhibits strong and authentic evidence of having visited some of the more exotic comers of Faerie . . . Crucially for readers, she proves she's able to bring the unicorn back alive, netted in golden prose . . . Dart-Thornton conjures up her world of Tir in the luminous yet hard-edged manner of Jack Vance and Mary Gentle.' ~ THE WASHINGTON POST
Autorenporträt
Cecilia Dart-Thornton is the author of numerous bestselling fantasy novels, notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy. The Washington Post reported that the first summer after Neilsen Booktrack launched in Australia, it showed Dart-Thornton's newly launched fantasy tome The Ill-Made Mute hitting the Herald's best-seller list, ranked next to mainstream authors and 'serious' fiction. Technology, in one swift blow, destroyed a decades-long publishers' bias against fantasy. It demonstrated that what people were really buying was simply not reflected in the old bestseller lists, based as they were on reports from a small panel of bookshops. The reality was, people were buying fantasy - in particular, they were buying The Ill-Made Mute. This debut novel and its two sequels in the 'Bitterbynde Trilogy' went on to win fans and accolades across the globe. The Ill-Made Mute was listed on Amazon's Best, Locus Magazine's Best First Novels, the Sydney Morning Herald's Top Twenty and the Australian Publishers' Association 'Australia's Favourite Read'. It is published in five languages and distributed in more than fifty countries around the world.