SuitabookTreasure and belonging
Carlo pursues hidden treasure, while the reported message material contrasts riches with love, chosen family and a feeling of home.
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Lloyd Alexander - Author
This is a quest adventure combining fantasy, humour, danger and deception. Its strongest thread appears to be the contrast between chasing wealth and finding courage, companionship and a sense of home.
A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask for more? Not Carlo Chuchio, who is seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road of Golden Dreams. With Baksheesh, the world's worst camel-puller, Carlo leads a caravan through the realm of Keshavar. Robbed of all but his underdrawers, mistaken for a mighty warrior and then for a crown prince, Carlo risks his life for a prize that may not even exist.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a quest adventure combining fantasy, humour, danger and deception. Its strongest thread appears to be the contrast between chasing wealth and finding courage, companionship and a sense of home.
Carlo pursues hidden treasure, while the reported message material contrasts riches with love, chosen family and a feeling of home.
Carlo is described as curious, courageous, optimistic and determined, but he sometimes lies to escape danger; other characters also resort to violence.
The journey involves killings, severe injuries, captivity, threats, slavery references and sexual exploitation threats.
Consider whether the reader is comfortable with frequent peril and graphic injury, deaths, captivity, slavery references, sexual exploitation threats, drunkenness, strong insults and brief romance.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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