Book of a Thousand Days is a fantasy novel by Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction.-Biography:Shannon Hale is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the "Books of Bayern" series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she and her husband co-wrote...

. It is her second novel based on a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...

, this time based on Maid Maleen

Maid Maleen

Maid Maleen is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 198.It is Aarne-Thompson type 870, the entombed princess.-Synopsis:A princess named Maid Maleen and a prince fell in love, but her father refused his suit...

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Plot summary

When Dashti, a mucker from the steppes of Titor's Garden, one of the 8 Realms, becomes Lady Saren's maid, she enters into a struggle between Saren and her father. The Lord of Titor's Garden has declared that his daughter will marry Lord Khasar of Thoughts of Under, when Saren reveals that she has betrothed herself to the young Khan Tegus of Song for Evela. To tame his daughter, Saren's father shuts her and Dashti, the only maid willing to accompany Saren, in a tower far away from his city. He claims he will only release them after seven years, or if Saren will relent and marry Khasar.
See what happens when her father never comes back and the two girls are left alone in the tower with out any knowledge of his death.

Publication history

• 2007, Bloomsbury USA Children's Books ISBN 1599900513, Pub date 18 September 2007, Hardback

External links

• Book of a Thousand Days on Shannon Hale's official website