Beast
By: by Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780689835896
Subjects: Fiction; Fairy tales; Young adult literature
Other titles: Beauty and the beast. English.
Description: Orasmyn is a young Persian prince with all the privileges and responsibilities his royal position holds. But when he falters and makes a single wrong decision, his pride angers a pari -- a fairy -- who sets an ancient curse into motion, crucially changing his life on the worst day possible, and forcing him to leave his beloved Persia and his precious family in order to escape death at his father's unwitting hands. With all the cunning he can muster from his human memories and his new beastly instincts, Orasmyn makes his way to India and back, across Europe to France, in search of redemption and forgiveness. Beast is his story. A French beauty named Belle is his redeemer. And then you know the rest. But this is before the rest. This is the story of Beast.
Table of contents: title: Map; title: Curse: Camel; title: Pari; title: Kooma; title: Plan; title: Strange Life: Blood; title: Birds; title: Death; title: Lion: Alone; title: India; title: My pride; title: Traveling again; title: Two years; title: New world: Man; title: Gule Sourkh; title: Larder; title: Candles; title: My child; title: Belle; title: Deer; title: Dido; title: Letters; title: At Last; title: Author's note; title: Glossary; title: Author's note on language.