The Spear Cuts Through Water: A Novel

Authors: Jimenez, Simon
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC009020, FIC009100
ISBN: 9780593156605, Related ISBNs: 0593156595, 0593156609, 0593414691, 0593414705, 9780593156599
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 400,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A reluctant warrior on the run with an ancient goddess through a lush world full of wild magic, wondrous creatures, and hidden enemies has only five days to end an oppressive Emperor's reign in this beautiful epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.

In the Land of the Strangled Throat, the people suffer under the rule of a despotic Emperor. His sons, the Three Terrors, despoil the countryside and oppress its citizens. When Keema Daware--a fierce warrior who lost his left arm in battle--finds the lost Moon goddess, who has escaped from her royal imprisonment, at his sentry outpost during a five day celebration of the Emperor, he must make a choice: turn her in and evade the wrath of the Three Terrors, or help her overthrow the government and free a nation.
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