Le Sable et l'Acier
(Sand and Steel)
Francine Pelletier is recognized as one of the
best authors of her generation.
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Le Sable et l'Acier -1 : Nelle de Vilvèq
(Sand and Steel 1 : Nelle of Vilvèq)
Illustration: Guy England
Nelle would be just an ordinary girl but for her whys and
whos, all the questions she asks without ever getting answers
from the Vilvèq adults.
What lies beyond the desert that surrounds the city ?
Who is this mythical Traveller who brings the supplies vital
for the people's survival ? Where does he come from and
where does he go back to when his ship leaves the harbour, carrying
mysterious crates ? And how does the hull of his ship withstand
the terrible corrosive power of the river's water, while the
ships of Vilvèq cannot ?
Because Nelle wants to know, whatever the cost, because her
need for freedom and her insatiable curiosity have made her ferociously
stubborn, and her revolt against the authorities will be extreme...
as extreme as the consequences of her rebellion.
Francine
Pelletier
Nelle de Vilvèq (Nelle of Vilvèq)
273 pages, $13.95
Illustration: Guy England |
Nelle would be just an ordinary girl but for her whys and whos, all the questions she asks without ever getting answers from the Vilvèq adults. What lies beyond the desert that surrounds the city ? Who is this mythical Traveller who brings the supplies vital for the people's survival ? Where does he come from and where does he go back to when his ship leaves the harbour, carrying mysterious crates ? And how does the hull of his ship withstand the terrible corrosive power of the river's water, while the ships of Vilvèq cannot ? Because Nelle wants to know, whatever the cost, because her need for freedom and her insatiable curiosity have made her ferociously stubborn, and her revolt against the authorities will be extreme... as extreme as the consequences of her rebellion. |
| Francine
Pelletier Nelle de Vilvèq (Nelle of Vilvèq) 273 pages, $13.95 |
Le Sable et l'Acier-2
: Samiva de Frée
(Sand and Steel 2 : Samiva of Frée)
 Illustration: Guy England |
Samiva was a Memory apprentice who once knew by heart all the lineages of the people of Frée. When she left her island, ten years ago, to become the first female FADI officer, she thought she had finally turned her back on her painful past. But Joffe, her best friend and colleague in the army, has become a member of a religious sect, the shore people. Its members know one another by a Fréan symbol, Anaconda, the snake that, according to legend, created the island of Frée. What is hidden behind Joffe's surprising conversion and, above all, what is he doing late at night with the leader of the invaders from distant Terra, the one nicknamed Loose-skin ? Sam thought she'd forgotten Frée and its lineages ; fate is going to force her to remember quite quickly... Le Sable et l'acier (Sand and Steel), a trilogy with unforgettable characters and whose Samiva de Frée (Samiva of Frée) is the second volume. |
| Francine
Pelletier Samiva de Frée (Samiva of Frée) 363 pages, $14.95 |
Le Sable et l'Acier-3
: Issabel de Qohosaten
(Sand and Steel 3 : Issabel of Qohosaten)
 Illustration: Guy England |
Nelle left Vilvèq to find answers to her questions : she is now confined to a room, in the house of Touquertes, on the planet Sarion. Samiva once tried to learn about her people's origins. She is now the Memory of Frée, but she has never discovered the whole truth. Then she becomes the bodyguard of the young Earth woman. Those two women, so different, will soon have to combine their efforts in order to revive their respective quests. Faced with tribes of wild men, hounded by the Black Killers in the great Desert of Desolation, Nelle and Samiva will finally meet the one who will join her own quest with theirs and guide them to the mythical city of Satan's Tail. Le Sable et l'acier (Sand and Steel), a trilogy with unforgettable characters. In this final volume, all mysteries are unveiled. |
| Francine
Pelletier Issabel de Qohosaten (Issabel of Qohosaten) 374 pages, $14.95 |
