'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.
Lewis's' New Statesman'I have gone to look for a lion.
' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note.
But his decision has unexpected consequences.
He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death.
'Magic at work .
Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness.
His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head' Sunday Times.
| Else | A tawnyskinned ambereyed beast from another place and time a bringer of life and deathmagic at work |
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