Hild : a novel / Nicola Griffith
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 546 p. : illus. & genealogical table ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780374280871
- FIC GRI
- PS3557.R48935 H55 2013
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Expurgado/No disponible | 038678 |
A historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild. Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world -- of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next -- that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king's seer. And she is indispensable -- until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future.
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