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Year of the Orphan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781628729924)
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Daniel Findlay
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xThe Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut with a gutsy, badass young female protagonist--for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker.
In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape whose taint she carries in her blood, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System. It is an outpost whose sole purpose is survival--refuge from the hulking, eyeless things they call Ghosts and other creatures that hunt beyond the fortress walls. Sold as a child, then raised hard in the System, the Orphan has a mission. She carries secrets about the destruction that brought the world to its knees. And she's about to discover that the past still holds power over the present. Given an impossible choice, will the Orphan save the only home she knows or see it returned to dust? Both paths lead to blood, but whose will be spilled? With propulsive pacing, a rich, broken language all its own, and a protagonist whose grit and charisma are matched by a relentless drive to know, The Year of the Orphan is a thriller of the future you won't want to put down.
Author: Daniel Findlay
ISBN-10: 1628729929
ISBN-13: 9781628729924
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2019
In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape whose taint she carries in her blood, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System. It is an outpost whose sole purpose is survival--refuge from the hulking, eyeless things they call Ghosts and other creatures that hunt beyond the fortress walls. Sold as a child, then raised hard in the System, the Orphan has a mission. She carries secrets about the destruction that brought the world to its knees. And she's about to discover that the past still holds power over the present. Given an impossible choice, will the Orphan save the only home she knows or see it returned to dust? Both paths lead to blood, but whose will be spilled? With propulsive pacing, a rich, broken language all its own, and a protagonist whose grit and charisma are matched by a relentless drive to know, The Year of the Orphan is a thriller of the future you won't want to put down.
Author: Daniel Findlay
ISBN-10: 1628729929
ISBN-13: 9781628729924
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2019
By Daniel Findlay
xDan Findlay is a historian by training and a writer for kids by trade. Dan has over ten years' experience editing Australia's leading youth magazines. He also has over a decade of freelance experience as a writer and photographer for Rolling Stone Australia as well as contributing the odd music story to the Sydney Morning Herald and writing for a wide variety of other pop culture titles. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
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