A winter's promise / Christelle Dabos ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle.

By: Dabos, ChristelleMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Dabos, Christelle. Passe-miroir ; bk. 1.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2018Description: 491 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781609454838Uniform titles: Fianc�es de l'hiver. English Subject(s): Mirrors -- Fiction | Conspiracy -- Fiction | Arranged marriage -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. DDC classification: 843/.92 Summary: "Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiance� to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark knownas the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that sheis a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world."--Amazon.
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Translation of: Les fianc�es de l'hiver.

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"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiance� to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark knownas the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that sheis a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world."--Amazon.

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