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Rating: 
Summary: A Beautiful, Heartbreaking Gem
Review: So, what's so great about it? Just incredibly vivid writing bringing to life a story of primal pain and drama, and in the process bringing you into the heads of two charactors, Bichu and Urebelava, who are utterly unlike you, and who you'll probably never forget. I know that because I didn't. While I just reread the novel a few days ago, I first read this story when I was 11. Some scenes in it, as well as the basic plot, went straight into the stock of symbols in my personal subconscious. That is of course rare enough, but for a book that a child can relate to, to stand up to rereading by an adult without seeming shallow and limited, is virtually unheard of. Tolkien's LOTR is the only other novel I ever experienced that pulled off this feat. If anything I've said about this book resonates with you, then do yourself a favor and get ahold of a copy.
And thank me later....
Rating:
Summary: A Beautiful, Heartbreaking Gem
Review: So, what's so great about it? Just incredibly vivid writing bringing to life a story of primal pain and drama, and in the process bringing you into the heads of two charactors, Bichu and Urebelava, who are utterly unlike you, and who you'll probably never forget. I know that because I didn't. While I just reread the novel a few days ago, I first read this story when I was 11. Some scenes in it, as well as the basic plot, went straight into the stock of symbols in my personal subconscious. That is of course rare enough, but for a book that a child can relate to, to stand up to rereading by an adult without seeming shallow and limited, is virtually unheard of. Tolkien's LOTR is the only other novel I ever experienced that pulled off this feat. If anything I've said about this book resonates with you, then do yourself a favor and get ahold of a copy.
And thank me later....
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