Book of a thousand days / Shannon Hale ; [illustrations by James Noel Smith].
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TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 305 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN: - 1599900513
- 9781599900513
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Main Library | YA Fiction | Hale, Sha | Available | 33111005265646 |
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Based on a classic Grimm's fairy tale, this is the story told by Dashti, a maid from the steppes of a medieval land, who sacrifices her freedom to accompany her mistress into exile. Imprisoned in a remote tower after Lady Saren refuses to marry the man her father has chosen, the maid and the lady have almost nothing in common. But the loyalty that grows between the two, the man they love in different ways for different reasons, and the lies they tell because of and in spite of each other, combine to evoke the deepest bonds, transcend the loneliest landscapes, and erupt in a conclusion so romantic, so clever, and so right that no reader will be left dry-eyed.
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.