- Children's fiction, Winter, fiction
In a grim future world where the sun has vanished from the sky, people glean what warmth and light they can from the firestones mined by an untouchable caste known as the Quelled. Countless taboos are shattered when Elsha, an idealistic and rebellious Quelled girl, is chosen to be handmaid to the Firelord--the man revered by those calling themselves the Chosen.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Sherryl Jordan
- First published
- January 1995
- Publisher
- Point
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780590452892
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