Product Review

Imagine a world of magic combined with the gripping, eye-opening social realism of Oliver Twist!

Dysingli Soon is a cheerfully efficient laundry boy employed by a Roman nobleman during the Middle Ages. Because of a mistake in identity, our young hero and his family must suddenly flee The Eternal City, speeding east on an epic adventure that finds the Soons falling in with an overly dramatic theater troupe and a charismatic British monk, before throwing in with intrepid, wayfaring knights. In the course of his far-flung misadventures, Dysingli will battle dangerous dragons, Mongolian invaders, and rioting mutineers on frothing, ink-black seas. He will also encounter magical horses and a few mysterious ravens that maybe know a little too much for their own good. Gracefully achieved, emotionally charged and sprinkled with an at times intoxicating whimsy, Joanna D. Jakubcin’s panoramic adventure brings alive the sights, sounds and feel of Eurasia in the thirteenth century. It is a classic adventure for readers who love dramatic, eventful storytelling in the rich tradition of Robinson Crusoe and Charles Dickens.