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The Chosen (Pinto Novel)
''The Chosen'' is a 1999 fantasy novel by Ricardo Pinto. It is the first book in ''The Stone Dance of the Chameleon'' trilogy, which concerns the harrowing experiences of the young and inexperienced heir to a ruling dynasty who is suddenly taken from his protected childhood and thrust into a cruel society where he must fight for his family honour, his position and his life. A 2000 '' Locus'' poll ranked ''The Chosen'' 14th in the Best First Novel category. Development Pinto has reported that he first wrote a 600-page draft of the series during the summer holiday while at university in the early 1980s. Ten years later he produced rewritten drafts for the second and third books of the series, before creating a 100-page synopsis of the first book, which was submitted to a publisher, Transworld. The book then took a further two years to complete. Pinto reports that his writing style has changed through the writing of the series, so that while the final volume has been driven by it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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