The alchemist and the executioness

Author / Creator

Bacigalupi, Paolo, author

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Summary

"It is a world where magic is forbidden--yet practiced in secret every day. But each small act of magic exacts a dreadful price--for it brings thje bramble, which chokes farmland, destroys villages...

"It is a world where magic is forbidden--yet practiced in secret every day. But each small act of magic exacts a dreadful price--for it brings thje bramble, which chokes farmland, destroys villages, and kills with its deadly thorns. In this world, an alchemist believes he's found a solution to the curse. But will the cure be worse than the disease? And a woman is forced to take up the mantle of her father, the Executioner. But it will not be the only death that she that she faces"--Container.

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