num_pages: 306
description: When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. With the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors--one welcome, the other decidedly less so--the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this little-known classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.
language: English
title: Book of a Thousand Days
titlecomplete: Book of a Thousand Days
characters: Khan Tegus, Lady Saren, Lord Khasar, Dashti
genres: Fairy Tales, Retellings, Adventure, Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 53467
places: Mongolia
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Young Adult Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Utah Book Award
category: Children/Young Adults, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Whitney Award
category: Speculative Fiction, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: AML Award
category: Young Adult Literature, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas
category: Mejor novela extranjera independiente
publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books