- Fiction, Survival in fiction, Interpersonal relations in fiction, Interpersonal relations
The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne...a girl from the other side of the globe — is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave. Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne's sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives — all of them hungry and all of them frightened. As Mau and Daphne struggle to keep the small band safe and fed, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down....Internationally revered storyteller Terry Pratchett presents a breathtaking adventure of survival and discovery, and of the courage required to forge new beliefs.
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Classical in form, plot-driven, contemporary and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Corgi, Dom Wydawniczy Rebis
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- tur, Polish, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780061709135
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“Imo wybrał się pewnego dnia na ryby, ale nie było morza. Nie było niczego prócz Imo. Splunął więc w dłonie, potarł nimi i ulepił kulkę morza. Potem stworzył ryby, te były jednak głupie i leniwe. Wziął więc dusze kilku delfinów, które przynajmniej nauczyły się mówić, zmieszał je z gliną, ugniótł w dłoniach, aż zmieniły kształt i stały się ludźmi. Ludzie byli mądrzy, ale nie byli w stanie pływać cały dzień, Imo wykopał więc więcej gliny, ugniótł ją, a potem wypalił w ognisku swego rybackiego obozowiska. W ten sposób powstał ląd.”
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (*The Colour of Magic*) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read no
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