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THE SOLEMN LANTERN MAKER
By: Merlinda Bobis
Delta
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Featuring: Noland
272 pages
ISBN: 038534113X
EAN: 9780385341134
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Fiction Family Life
From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summerββ[a] wonderful debutβ¦[that] resembles Sandra Cisnerosβs The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club membersβ*βcomes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. Itβs six days until Christmas, and on the bustling streets of Manila a mute ten-year-old boy sells his version of the stars: exquisite lanterns handmade with colorful paper. But everything changes for young Noland when he witnesses an American tourist injured in a drive-by shooting of a journalist and imagines heβs seen an angel falling from the sky. When Noland whisks her to the safety of the hut he shares with his mother, the magical and the real collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and loss, dreams of friendship and the global war on terror. While the story of the missing tourist grips the media, Noland and his mother care for their wounded guest, and a dark memory returns. But light sneaks in β and their lives are transformed by the power of love. *Library Journal (starred review, βEditorβs Pickβ)
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