![]() ![]() ![]() Each Horde member has their own strong and assertive personality and a very precise duty in the Horde that they occupy during training and missions. Predominately told by Sov, the Horde’s scribe, Damasio plunges us directly into the daily preparation of these children who must focus on and gather their strengths while coping with their differences, their love and hate for one another. ![]() The Horde of Counterwind follows the twenty-three members of the thirty-fourth – and most likely last – Horde. There have been thirty-three attempts in eight hundred years, thirty-three Hordes that have failed. Their only purpose: to find the mysterious source of the wind in the Upper Reaches. Within the deafening noise of the wind, on the Lower Slopes, an elite group of twenty-three children were raised for the sole purpose of facing the ever-blowing gusts, climbing up windwards for the rest of their lives. *** English translation sample available *** *** FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FOR EDITORS ONLY *** *** Rights sold to Germany, Italy, and Russia *** *** 300,000 copies sold *** *** #12 out of 100 readers’ choice le monde *** The Horde of Counterwind Alain Damasio (La Volte, 520 pages, 2004) ![]()
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