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Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Megan Whalen Turner
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Greenwillow Books, GREENWILLOW, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062680051
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