THE AWAKENERS
Sheri S. Tepper
ORB, A Tom Doherty Associates, Inc Book, 1994
ISBN:0-312-89022-2 (trade paperback)
Come to a world distant in time and space, a world where the pace of life is counted by tides of
the great River, but where, as in the river itself, there are swift dark currents flowing under a
placid surface.
Meet Pamra Don - a young woman scarred by her mother's death, lured to a priesthood where the
truth must be hidden from the faithful. And mmet Thrasne, a young boatman who trades from
town to town, free from iron control of the Towers of the Awakeners, and the priests of the
world of the River - free, that is, as long as he never speaks his mind. These two, by design and
accident both, are about to discover many truths.
And on the Northshore of the River, the truth can kill you.
"Tepper'gifted imagination holfds firm in a novel with striking imagery." -- School Library
Journal
Original published as 2 novels: Northshore: Tor Books 1987; Southshore: Tor Books
1987
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