- Fathers and daughters, Missing persons, Magic, Teen fantasy fiction
Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and richly built.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Garth Nix
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Collins, Perfection Learning Prebound, Harpercollins Childs
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- Italian, French, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780063040502
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