Gool NZ Edition
  • Published: 29 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780143305446
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.00

Gool NZ Edition

  • Maurice Gee
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The second instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series

Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe.
Hari lies gravely ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining his life. The beast is called gool, meaning unbelonger. It is one of many, destroying the mountains and jungles of the world. Somewhere a hidden mother nourishes her brood — she must be found and destroyed to save Hari and the world they know.
Xantee, Lo and the brave and practical youth Duro set out on a perilous mission that will take them to the ruined city of Belong and on to Ceebeedee, where terrifying clashes with the cruel rival leaders and lurking gool await them.
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  • Published: 29 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780143305446
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.00
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Praise for Gool NZ Edition

'Gee has proved again why he is considered a living legend in literary circles and is one of the country's most recognised authors' Gisborne Herald

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'Gee is a master storyteller' Canvas Magazine

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'a superb fantasy which turns the raw materials of legend into a dramatic and thought-provoking adventure' Trevor Agnew, Magpies

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'Xantee and Lo, son and daughter of Hari and Pearl (from the first title in this trilogy, Salt),set out on a perilous mission through jungles and mountains to find and kill the'Gool' that is threatening Hari's life. It takes them to the scenes of their parents' past lives where they must confront the Company and finish what Hari and his father started years ago. This well ‐written, engrossing story uncontrivedly incorporates elements of Salt , last year's category winner. Allusive and metaphorical, Gool also offers readers characters who are humanly frail yet resilient in the face of an almost impenetrable darkness. Realistically, not everyone survives intact.' Judges' Report, New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2009

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