A Short Walk Through a Wide World [electronic resource] : The most spellbinding, life-affirming novel of summer 2024
Douglas Westerbeke2024
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Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes
across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the
fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, at the family
dinner table, she is stricken by a mysterious illness.
When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the
city, where she discovers it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive.
So begins her incredible lifelong journey on the run from her condition.
From the scorched dunes of the Calanshio Sand Sea, to the snow-packed peaks of
the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard, to the shelves of
an infinite underground library, we follow Aubry as she learns what it takes to
survive and, ultimately, to truly live. But the longer she wanders, the more she
understands that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as
everyone else’s…
Main title:
Author:
Douglas Westerbeke, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Vintage Digital, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781529928273
Language:
English
BRN:
527216
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