The Way Back

If the world of the living were a suit of clothes and the world of the dead the bony flesh beneath, then at each elbow there would be a cemetery gate.br>Here the dead rub up against the living world.br>Here the living world wears thin.Yehuda Leib and Bluma have seperate, unexpected meetings with The Dark One: Death. Meetings which push them on journeys far from their homes across the Far Country - the world of the dead . . .From the author of the acclaimed crossover novel, Anna and the Swallow Man, a stand-alone literary fantasy set in a world where the dead and the living walk side by side - though not all of them know this. Based on Jewish folk lore and traditions this is a story for fans of Neil Gaiman.>

Product details

• Authors: GAVRIEL SAVIT
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780241442548
• ISBN: 978-0-241-44254-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Literary, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years