Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Island at the End of Everything (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A poignant story filled with heart-warming courage as a young girl takes on a harrowing journey to be reunited with her mother. Ami lives on Culion, an island in the Philippines for people who have leprosy. Her mother is among the infected. Ami loves her home: with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion contains all she knows and loves. But the arrival of malicious government official Mr. Zamora changes her world forever. Islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave for a neighboring island, where the children are placed in an orphanage. Banished across the sea, Ami is desperate to return to Culion before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late? Heartrending yet hopeful, celebrated newcomer Kiran Hargrave's novel is a story about loss, perseverence, and faith. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Children's Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780553535341
• Artikelnr.: 52360271

Autorenporträt

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a poet and novelist, currently studying on Oxford University's Creative Writing MA. She was born in London in 1990, and now lives in Oxford. Find her on Twitter @kiran_mh or kiranmillwoodhargrave.co.uk