| | |  | SHOP BY TYPE | Home » » The Book of Heroes | | | | | | | Description: | | L to R (Western Style). A young girl travels into a magical world to save her brother from real-world bullies. When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, the young Yukiro finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed b a spirit from the Book of Heroes. She visits the magical Nameless Land, where she is told how to save her brother, and is sent back to Earth with a young monk named Sora and the magical book, now a mouse named Azu. Yuri has to piece together the mystery of Horiko, and has a library of pwerful magic books at her disposal to do so! When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, the young Yukiro finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed b a spirit from the Book of Heroes. She visits the magical Nameless Land, where she is told how to save her brother, and is sent back to Earth with a young monk named Sora and the magical book, now a mouse named Azu. Yuri has to piece together the mystery of Horiko, and has a library of pwerful magic books at her disposal to do so! | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Miyuki Miyabe | | Hardcover:
| 400 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| January 19, 2010 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421527758 | | Product Length:
| 10.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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miyabe does it againMar 11, 2010
After reading Miyuki Miyabe's "Brave Story" and now her newest, "The Book of Heroes," Miyabe has firmly established herself, in my mind, as one of the best fantasy novelists writing today.
Eleven-year-old Yuriko adores her older brother, Hiroki. An eighth grader, Hiroki excels in academics and in sports, and is popular with his fellow students. But suddenly Yuriko's world is shattered when she learns that Hiroki has killed a classmate, injured another, and then disappeared. As the community searches for her missing brother, Yuriko finds out that her brother is in thrall to the Hero/King in Yellow and that only she can save him. With the help of a talking dictionary named Aju, a hunter named Ash, and her servant monk Sky, Yuriko sets out to find her brother and confront the Hero.
Miyabe's strength is in world building and in introducing philosophies without bludgeoning readers with them. Miyabe creates three intertwined worlds (with the hint of many more) that are each important to the concept of stories and how they shape humanity. Miyabe also brings up interesting ideas regarding cause and effect, being at peace but still having to pay the consequences, and when "heroism" is actually the wrong course of action. Unlike the thought in so many current stories, "being a hero" is not a black-and-white issue, but a myriad of shades of gray. There are not necessarily easy, happy endings, because in Miyabe's novel, the journey is definitely more important than the outcome.
"The Book of Heroes" is a deep, intricate story that will linger with you long after you've finished the last sentence. Highly recommended.
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