Beloved

by Beth Winegarner

ISBN: 978-1-4303-1915-3
Publisher: Lulu.com
Rights Owner: Beth Winegarner
Copyright: © 2007 Beth Winegarner Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
Edition: First Edition
  • Paperback book $13.95

Printed: 201 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

Description:

What is home?

What is loyalty?

What is family?

This book will make you question them all.

"Beloved" is a unique memoir of war and triumph in the fictional city of Damas.

Kirin is a young girl nearly orphaned and left in the care of her older brother, Emlyn. After a charismatic, tyrannical king takes control of Damas, capitalism and slavery are forced on its people. Kirin watches as her peers are sold into forced labor. Emlyn, fearing the same fate for his sister, enrolls her in the city's university for historians -- and begins to teach her to fight like a soldier, a path that ultimately leads them both into exile and war.

As Kirin grows from a child of seven to a young woman of seventeen, her tale unfolds with shades of trauma, love, honor, and betrayal. She learns the value of family -- and just how crucial it is for historians to document the truth.

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18 Feb 2007 (updated 18 Feb 2007)
“Beloved” is a work of fiction, but it is fiction with a substantial message laced within the story of a young woman’s coming of age. In spite of her comfortable and somewhat privleged life, the heroine of the story soon learns that all is not what it seems to be. As Kirin’s life becomes more and more entangled in the history of the kingdom in which she lives, she learns to question many things we take for granted, including what is the truth and what is an elaborate web of deception. Cast in a far-away land and time, it is nonetheless pertinent to our own lives. A satisfying and fast-paced read, “Beloved” has everything a lover of fiction could want. I highly recommend it - Rayvn Navarro

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