The Conch Bearer (The Brotherhood of the Conch Series)

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee

ISBN 10: 0761327932 ISBN 13: 9780761327936

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 2003

Synopsis

Action, adventure, and magic are combined in this exotic, compelling quest fantasy by a distinguished author of adult fiction and poetry. Set in contemporary India, the story opens in a poor section of Calcutta, where 12-year-old Anand is entrusted with a conch shell imbued with mystical powers. Anand's task is to return the shell to its rightful home high in the Himalayas. Will he succeed? This is literary fiction of the highest order, as well as an adventure story that is almost impossible to put down.

About this title

About the Author:

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in India and now lives and teaches in Houston, Texas. Her books include the New York Times bestseller, The Mistress of Spices.

From AudioFile:

When we first meet 12-year-old Anand, he is carrying an armload of dishes through a crowded tea stall of Kolkata, India. His sister is sick, and his mother depends on the little he brings home. But he's a gentle boy, not hardened by this environment, kind to others, and, most of all, he believes in the magic of dreams. That is why those who keep the conch come to him for help. Somehow whorled into this conch are great powers, and it must be returned. Reader Alan Cumming's voice echoes with this mysterious energy and the noisy streets of India. It has that delicate hint of the Indian English dialect that is at once so precise and so distant, in a story that suggests both the magic of Harry Potter and the grit of Dickens's OLIVER TWIST. Both story and reader are pungent with the spiced tea and the spiked lightning of Anand's fantasy, if it is fantasy. P.E.F. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761327932
• ISBN 13: 9780761327936
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272