Title: The unfortunate son
Description: Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
Subjects: Kidnapping, Human Abnormalities, Slavery, Fiction, Fishing, Luck, Identity, History, Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction, Identity (Psychology), Fortune, Fishing stories
Places: Africa, France
Time periods: 15th century, To 1498