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(GOURLAY) Candy Gourlay ~ Bone Talk: Uncorrected Manuscript Proof, Signed By Author

Author ~ Candy Gourlay

Title ~ Bone Talk

Edition ~ Uncorrected Manuscript Proof

ISBN ~ 9789712734724

Publisher ~ David Fickling Books

Published ~ 2018-08-02

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 247

Format ~ Paperback 

Condition ~ Used, Like New

Signed, preview Edition. Very slight shelf wear 

Categories ~ #HistoricFiction #YoungAdult #War #Adventure #Fiction #UncorrectedManuscriptproof #Signed #CandyGourlay #9789712734724

"Rich in the customs of the Bontok culture, with its paddy fields, sacrifices to ancestral spirits, and hunting and fighting with spears and axes, this fully imagines a way of life for which the records are sketchy. It also shows us a moment of change, as two worlds meet, and that it takes more than a ceremony to make a man."Nicolette Jones”, The Sunday Times

More than a hundred years ago, a boy named Samkad thinks he knows everything about the world. He knows the mountains he lives in. He knows his people. He knows his blood enemy, the Mangili. He wants to become a man, to be given his own shield, spear, and axe to fight with. His best friend, Luki, wants all the same things--except she is a girl, and no girl has ever become a warrior.

But everything changes when a new boy arrives in the village. He calls himself Samkad's brother, yet he knows nothing of the ways of the mountain. He brings news of a people called "Americans", who are bringing war and destruction right to his home....

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