《The Tears of the Salamander》是一本圖書,作者是Dickinson, Peter
基本介紹
- 外文名:The Tears of the Salamander
- 作者:Dickinson, Peter
- 出版時間:2005年2月
- ISBN:9780756956912
- 定價:17.63 美元
內容簡介
O to live in the heart of such a fire, like a salamander!Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano. He is also an alchemist, able to make gold from the tears of the f...(展開全部) O to live in the heart of such a fire, like a salamander!Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano. He is also an alchemist, able to make gold from the tears of the fiery salamander he captured from the heart of the mountain. Alfredois his heir, the next Master; and as Alfredo learns the history of his family and its power, he begins to suspect that his uncle is actually a fearsome sorcerer. From the Hardcover edition.