(Posted for Ann Roberts)
Set before the advent of the Bronze Age, The Gift of
Stones centers around a community of stoneworkers, living in a village
near the sea. They make a good living by the trade of their stonework, in the
form of weaponry and tools, but live their lives completely devoted to working
with stone, from daybreak until nightfall. A young boy, maimed by an arrow,
becomes something of an outcast due to his inability to work with stone, the raison d’etre for the entire
village. Because of his ostracism, he
ventures from the confines of the village to explore the unknown and returns
with tales of ships and the seashore, disquieting the daily grind of the stoneworkers,
even as they remain oblivious to changes in the outside world. The revelation
of an arrow made of bronze in the back of another outcast brings the first
glimpse of the change that has taken place in the world outside of the village.
Hardback, 179 pages
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