Soonchild

Author : Russell Hoban

Hardback

Published : Thursday 1 March 2012

ISBN : 9781406329919

Price : €11.69

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Hoban is the best sort of genius. Patrick Ness, The Guardian

Hoban is the best sort of genius. Patrick Ness, The Guardian Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world, and John must find them for her. But how? The answer takes him through many lifetimes and many shape-shifts, as well as encounters with beasts, demons and a mysterious benevolent owl spirit, Ukpika, who is linked to John's past...

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