Irona 700
By: Dave Duncan
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781504002189
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Women farmers; Women pioneers; Women immigrants; Swedish Americans; Fiction
Other titles: Irona seven hundred
Description: "It is Midsummer Day, the beginning of the year 700, in the city of Benign. All the children born in the year 684 celebrate their joint sixteenth birthday by passing in front of the statue of the blind goddess Caprice--but only one will become the Chosen and join the Seventy who govern and guide the city. Much to her surprise, Irona Matrinko, one of the many children of an impoverished fisherman, is chosen. Irona 700 moves into the palace and, with the help of a new mentor, recognizes and cultivates her great talent for guiding wars: strategy and tactics, leadership and inspiration"--Page 4 of cover.