By Marina Warner
ISBN-10: 1409028763
ISBN-13: 9781409028765
Publish yr note: First released in 2001
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When a mummy within the Museum of Albion is unpacked it's came upon to include a package deal of curious gadgets and records which inform of the wanderings of an unknown girl, Leto.
On the run, in a distant period of civil strife, Leto offers beginning to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a wasteland stronghold because the lover of its commander, stows away on a boat loaded with plundered antiquities after which works as a maid in a war-torn urban. She loses her son yet saves her daughter in the course of an extended siege.
As the radical sweeps from mythological occasions and the center a long time to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the current day, Leto reappears in numerous guises. ultimately she turns into a servant to a rock singer, and starts off to go looking for her son.
Literary Awards
Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001)
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There, in a patch of wintry starlight where the trees were thinner, were the hulking forms of what Jerome at first mistook for dogs. Taking a few steps closer, down the side of the low hill, it was clear to Jerome that these were like no dogs he had ever seen before. The cold, sobering realization came over Jerome that he was watching two huge wolves at work over some prey and at the same time he was aware that the strange woman had not slowed her pace, but was walking right toward the wolves. ” Jerome cried and caught up to her.
Jerome’s master rewarded what he considered “drunken, lying insolence” with confining his slave to the kitchen by a chain and making him peel endless heaps of potatoes. But Jerome didn’t mind. Anything was preferable to what he had seen the previous night. As had happened during the Battle of New Orleans, the Civil War and the occupation of the city by Union forces did much to impede the livelihood of the Basquemen. Consequently, there were numerous reported sightings of large wolves in the distant areas of the parish, along with the disappearance and mutilation of livestock nearby.
Elisabeth Bathory’s regular in-castle assembly of Witches, vampires, werewolves, and alchemists easily convinced her of the effectiveness of ritual human sacrifice to ensure Satan’s blessing of their magic spells and her rejuvenating blood baths. Darkside Witches also gained Elisabeth’s permission to conduct sadistic magical experiments on the girls. The Countess herself grew to crave demonstrations of torture as a daily activity. Her cruelly inventive mind devised countless devices by which to flay, burn, freeze, and bleed the captive girls.
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