- Book of a Thousand Days
Infobox Book
name = Book of a Thousand Days
image_caption = "Book of a Thousand Days" first U.S. edition cover
author =Shannon Hale
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country =United States
language = English
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genre = Young adultFantasy novel
publisher =Bloomsbury Publishing
pub_date = September 18, 2007
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media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 320 pp
isbn = ISBN 1599900513
oclc = 78770995
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followed_by ="Book of a Thousand Days" is a fantasy novel by
Shannon Hale . It is her second novel based on a fairy tale collected by theBrothers Grimm , this time based onMaid Maleen .Plot summary
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.
As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. But the arrival outside the tower of Saren’s two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows. When she has a dream she finds how to escape but Saren refuses and says everone is out to kill her.
Literary significance and reception
Awards and nominations
Winner: Best Speculative Fiction 2007,
Whitney Awards Adaptations
Publication history
*2007, Bloomsbury USA Children's Books ISBN 1599900513, Pub date 18 September 2007, Hardback
Footnotes
External links
[http://www.squeetus.com/stage/books_b1000.html "Book of a Thousand Days"] on Shannon Hale's official website
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