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THE BONE FIRE - GYÖRGY DRAGOMÁN KARTONIERT (TB)

A New York Times Editors' Choice ?Anything can happen in The Bone Fire?and everything does.
Dragomán puts us in the middle of our most wondrous and terrifying childhood fairytales 
somehow unhazing their dreaminess and replicating their electrifying uncertainty all at once.?
?Téa Obreht  bestselling author of Inland and The Tiger's Wife [Dragomán's] telling is not just
magic  but enchantment. ?Rebecca Makkai  New York Times Book Review From an award-winning and
internationally acclaimed European writer: A chilling and suspenseful novel set in the wake of
a violent revolution about a young girl rescued from an orphanage by an otherworldly
grandmother she's never met Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European
dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident 
she's taken to an orphanage  only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met.
While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution  Emma?like a witch's apprentice?comes
to learn the ways of her new grandmother  who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs  cause and
heal pain at will  and shares her home with the ghost of her husband. But this is not the main
reason her grandmother is treated with suspicion and contempt by most people in town. They
suspect her or her husband of having been involved in the disappearance of top secret
government files. As Emma learns her family history  she begins to see that  for her
grandparents  the alternate reality shaped by magic was their only form of freedom. The Bone
Fire is a political Gothic  carried along by the menace and promise of a fairy tale.

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