The Castle of Whispers

by Carole Martinez

Book Overview

This Goncourt Lyceens Award-winning novel is "a powerfully visualized magic-realist fable" of secrets, faith, and female defiance in twelfth century France (Kirkus Reviews).

France, 1187. On the day of her wedding, the beautiful fifteen-year-old Esclarmonde scandalizes the court when she refuses to marry the knight chosen by her father, the brutish lord of the domain of Whispers. Defying her father's wishes, she vows to give...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609451821
• ISBN13: 9781609451820
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher