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The Tears of the Salamander

Peter Dickinson (2003)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG
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When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.