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Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf Books For Young Readers Mai 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0525644601 ISBN 13: 9780525644606
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Can you still have a home if you don't have a house In the spirit of The Truth About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree comes a stunning debut about a family struggling to find something lasting when everything feels so fleeting.Always think in threes and you'll never fall, Cora's father told her when she was a little girl. Two feet, one hand. Two hands, one foot. That was all Cora needed to know to climb the trees of Brooklyn.But now Cora is a middle schooler, a big sister, and homeless. Her mother is trying to hold the family together after her father's death, and Cora must look after her sister, Adare, who's just different, their mother insists. Quick to smile, Adare hates wearing shoes, rarely speaks, and appears untroubled by the question Cora can't help but ask: How will she find a place to call home After their room at the shelter is ransacked, Cora's mother looks to an old friend for help, and Cora finally finds what she has been looking for: Ailanthus altissima, the 'tree of heaven,' which can grow in even the worst conditions. It sets her on a path to discover a deeper truth about where she really belongs. Just Under the Clouds will take root in your heart and blossom long after you've turned the last page.'[A] heartbreaking yet hopeful story of a family searching for a place to belong.' --Publishers Weekly'[A] thought provoking debut about the meaning of home and the importance of family.'--Horn Book Magazine.
Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf Books For Young Readers Aug 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593425847 ISBN 13: 9780593425848
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Can playing dead bring you back to life Maybe on Dead Wednesday On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they make will change them both forever. A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl.'Jerry Spinelli has created another middle grade masterpiece.' BookPage, starred reviewOn Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know it's a free pass to get away with anything.Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie. So he's not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different. But he didn't count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash). And he certainly didn't count on Becca showing up to boss him around! Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything.This is the story of the unexpected, heartbreaking, hilarious, truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life.
Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf Aug 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524711292 ISBN 13: 9781524711290
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death.When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.
Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf Books For Young Readers Apr 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0525578447 ISBN 13: 9780525578444
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The New York Times Bestselling duo behind Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily return with twins out to throw the party of a lifetime--or at least the best party of high school!Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing parties for their friends--and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation.The rules are simple: each twin gets to invite three guests, and the other twin doesn't know who's coming until the partiers show up at the door. With Sam and Ilsa, the sibling revelry is always tempered with a large dose of sibling rivalry, and tonight is no exception.One night. One apartment. Eight people. What could possibly go wrong Oh, we all know the answer is plenty. But plenty also goes right, as well.in rather surprising ways.
Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf Books For Young Readers Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524770760 ISBN 13: 9781524770761
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth in this engrossing sci-fi adventure for fans of The Martian from award-winning author Nick Lake.He's going to a place he's never been before: home.Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. It's also the only home that fifteen-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known.Born and raised on Moon 2, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth. They've been 'parented' by teams of astronauts since birth and have run countless drills to ready themselves for every conceivable difficulty they might face on the flight.But has anything really prepared them for life on terra firma Because while the planet may be home to billions of people, living there is more treacherous than Leo and his friends could ever have imagined, and their very survival will mean defying impossible odds.
Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf Books For Young Readers Mär 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0525578420 ISBN 13: 9780525578420
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lost Crow Conspiracy is the dark, dazzling, action-packed sequel to Anna Arden's explosive societal debut in YA fantasy trilogy Blood Rose Rebellion.Sixteen-year old Anna Arden was once just the magically barren girl from an elite Luminate family. Now she has broken the Binding--and Praetheria, the creatures held captive by the spell, wreak havoc across Europe. Lower-class citizens have access to magic for the first time, while other Luminates lose theirs forever. Austria and Hungary are at odds once more.Anna Arden did not know breaking the Binding would break the world.Anna thought the Praetheria were on her side, content and grateful to be free from the Binding. She thought her cousin Matyas's blood sacrifice to the disarm the spell would bring peace, equality, justice. She thought her future looked like a society that would let her love a Romani boy, Gabor.But with the Monarchy breathing down her neck and the Praetheria intimidating her at every turn, it seems the conspiracies have only just begun.As threat of war sweeps the region, Anna quickly discovers she can't solve everything on her own. Now there's only one other person who might be able to save the country before war breaks out. The one person Anna was sure she'd never see again. A bandit. A fellow outlaw. A man known as the King of Crows. Matyas.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2021
ISBN 10: 0735282390 ISBN 13: 9780735282391
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is NEW in NEW dustjacket - 1st Printing.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2015
ISBN 10: 0307700291 ISBN 13: 9780307700292
Da: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2015. First (1st) Printing (no later printings stated, per publisher's policy) of "First American Edition" (stated). Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Ex-Library with only the following library markings: (1) two stamps to front-free endpaper: (2) a UPC Barcode to rear endpaper. No other library indications. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind other than a dark splash of color to the bottom edge. The pictorial Binding is bright (colors consistent throughout), with bright title, etc., to spine, and all corners square. The pictorial Dust Jacket is flawless - intact, bright and encased in a mylar cover, with the original price ($28.95) intact on the front flap. See photos. xv + 599 + ii pages. 6 3/8" x 9 3/8". Translated from the Turkish Kafamda Bir Tuhaflik by Ekin Oklap, this novel won the 2015 Erdal Öz Prize (Turkey), the 2015 Aydin Dogan Foundation Award (Turkey), and the 2016 The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award ("Foreign Literature" category, Russia). The book, the ninth novel by its Nobel Prize winning author, tells the story of an Istanbul street vendor from 1969 to 2012, with the changing city a character itself in the novel. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 900 grams / ~2 lb., and will require extra postage for international shipment or expedited delivery. ISBN 10: 0307700291 / ISBN 13: 9780307700292.
Editore: Sydney, Knopf / Penguin Random House Australia, 2018, 2018
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards (a bit flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.
Editore: Sydney, Knopf / Penguin Random House Australia, 2018, 2018
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards ( a bit flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.
Editore: Sydney, Knopf / Penguin Random House australia, 2018, 2018
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards (a bit flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.
Editore: Sydney, Knopf / Penguin Random House Australia, 2018, 2018
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards (insect flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.
Editore: A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a divison of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2017
ISBN 10: 0375815309 ISBN 13: 9780375815300
Da: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Chris Wormell (illustratore). 1st Edition. A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a divison of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2017. First (1st) Printing (full number line to "1") of the "First Edition October, 2017" (stated). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is white quarter paper to white, textured cloth, colors uniform throughout, with author's signature and design debossed on front board, bright white and black title, etc., to the spine, unmarked pictorial endpapers in blue tones, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform, with the original prices (US $22.99 CAN $29.99) intact on the rear panel. See photos. 449 + i pages. 6 5/8" x 9 1/4". The first of a second trilogy of fantasy novels, La Belle Sauvage, Volume One of The Book of Dust, is set 12 years before the start of His Dark Materials, and describes the events leading to the arrival of the infant Lyra Belacqua at Jordan College, Oxford. ISBN 10: 0375815309 / ISBN 13: 9780375815300.
Editore: Alfred A Knopf/Penguin Random House LLC, New York NY USA, 2020
ISBN 10: 0525658416 ISBN 13: 9780525658412
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This is the first American edition, first printing. As New copy in As new dustjacket with faint crease mark diagonally on the top left corner of the rear panel of the dustjacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2000
ISBN 10: 0676970753 ISBN 13: 9780676970753
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 1998
ISBN 10: 0676970990 ISBN 13: 9780676970999
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on title page. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 1997
ISBN 10: 0676970540 ISBN 13: 9780676970548
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676977952 ISBN 13: 9780676977950
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Penguin Random House USA, New York NY USA, 2018
ISBN 10: 0385532318 ISBN 13: 9780385532310
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. This is the Uncorrected Proof copy and is As New.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676977030 ISBN 13: 9780676977035
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 1998
ISBN 10: 0676971261 ISBN 13: 9780676971262
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2020
ISBN 10: 0345810694 ISBN 13: 9780345810694
Da: Pages 'N Pages Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, New York, 2019
Da: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Carrow, Jenny (jacket design); Stone, Jesse (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; and A Note About the Author. "Gripping. Fox masterfully conveys the exhilaration and loneliness of life undercover, and her memoir reads like a great espionage novle." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Extraordinary. [A] remarkable life. Fox engagingly -- and transparently -- describes her work as an undercover agent for the CIA." -- Kirkus Reviews. "Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her training and deployment in the most elite clandestine operations unit in the CIA, her eight years hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries, and her marriage and the birth of her first daughter, all while working undercover. As the book opens, Amaryllis is alone, navigating the back alleys of Karachi as she prepares to negotiate with terrorists to avoid deployment of a nuclear device. How, the reader wonders, did she come to be here, in a dark room in Pakistan, surrounded by men who could jus as easily kill her as cooperate with her requests? After studying international law and theology as an undergraduate at Oxford, Amaryllis enrolled at Georgetown, where she created an algorithm that predicted the likelihood that a terrorist cell could erupt anywhere in the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first job was analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day and assembling them for inclusion in the president's daily brief. Her next was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism Center, where she worlked to locate prisoners kidnapped by al Qa'ida; a year later she was working to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists, flying all over the world, debriefing detainees, and negotiating with arms dealers to buy chemical and biological weapons on the global black market. After completing the most demanding espionage training on earth, she was deployed as a spy under nonofficial cover to infiltrate terrorist networks in the most remote areas of North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Life Undercoveer is astonishing, exhilarating, impossible to put down -- an extraordinary record of a life of service and passion and almost unfathomable courage. It is also an intimate, raw, deeply layered memoir about marriage, motherhood, and life's work. A must-read memoir from an immensely gifted new writer." -- from the inner front jacket flap.
Editore: A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2021
ISBN 10: 059331817X ISBN 13: 9780593318171
Da: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2021. "Third Printing, March 2021" (stated) of the First American Edition. The first printing occurred earlier the same month on March 2nd. As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full black cloth (color uniform throughout) with bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The bright red Dust Jacket is flawless - color uniform and fully intact with the original price ($28.00) intact on the front flap. See photos. 303 + ii pages. 6 3/8" x 9 1/2". In this speculative novel, longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, the author examines the dangers of advancing technology and what it means to be human. The first-person narrator is Klara, a solar-powered artificial friend. ISBN 10: 059331817X / ISBN 13: 9780593318171.
Editore: A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf, a divison of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2019
ISBN 10: 0553510665 ISBN 13: 9780553510669
Da: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Fine. 1st Edition. A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf, a divison of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2019. First (1st) Printing (full number line to 1) of the "First Edition October 2019" (stated). As New in a Very Fine Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full red cloth color uniform throughout, with debossed bird image and facsimile of author's signature to front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked pictorial endpapers with view of Oxford, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is fully intact with the original prices (US $22.99 / $29.99 CAN) intact on the rear panel, bright with colors uniform throughout, and would be flawless but for a very slight bulge at the spine. See photos. 633 + ii pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4". Lyra Silvertongue (now a 20 year old undergraduate at University) and her daemon Pantalaimon, the protagonist(s) of His Dark Materials, encounter new adventures in this second volume of The Book of Dust, a fantasy novel which explores the relationship between rational and non-rational perceptions of the world. The book was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 980 grams / 2 lb., 2.6 oz., and will require extra postage for international shipment or expedited delivery. ISBN 10: 0553510665 / ISBN 13: 9780553510669.
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2022
ISBN 10: 0307268993 ISBN 13: 9780307268990
Da: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2022. First (1st) Printing (no others stated) of the "First Edition" (stated). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full blue cloth with bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked, white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is fully intact, bright and flawless, with the original prices (USA $30.00 Canada $41.00) intact on the front flap. See photos. 383 + i pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". One of the two last novels published by the author before his death in 2023, the novel was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. ISBN 10: 0307268993 / ISBN 13: 9780307268990.
Editore: Knopf Canada/Penguin/Penguin/Random House, Toronto, 2021
ISBN 10: 0735281793 ISBN 13: 9780735281790
Da: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Knopf Canada/Penguin, Toronto, 2021, Hardcover First Canadian Edition/First Printing with a complete number line ending in '1', indicating so. Much awaited new novel by the author of Normal People - which was also turned into a tv series. Book condition: New in a New dustjacket - jacket comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve.
Editore: Penguin Random House Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2016
Da: Kestrel Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Slim 8vo(9"tall)Stapled colour wraps. First Printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. SCARCE. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Penguin Random House, Knopf
ISBN 10: 1524711187 ISBN 13: 9781524711184
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, mit leichten Lagerspuren - 'Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent.'-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle-a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.