The Shadows of Radovar
Marloes Morshuis
Trim size: : 14,3 x 21,5 cm | 368 pages
A grey city, a very dark system, a fight for freedom
Jona and her parents, little brother and grandmother live in Starlight: one of the huge apartment buildings in Radovar. The inhabitants of this grey city have been subjected to a scoring system that determines your social position. Families who work hard enough earn extra points, which raises them to higher positions – literally. Those who score demerits end up as an Undergrounder, or worse, in an Underneighbourhood. Most of the people in Radovar have accepted the system. If you refuse to participate, your whole family will be condemned to misery. For that reason Jona keeps silent, but she avoids the Starlight life as much as possible. Her only friend is the unconventional caretaker Zalman, who lives deep underground. Then Jona is rudely confronted with the darker sides of Radovar. Grandma is forced to move to a building for elderly people, and the cleaners of the Grey Brigade turn out to do more than just sweep the streets. When Jona sneaks outside and meets the street urchin Kilian, she becomes involved with a resistance group who seeks to reveal Radovar’s true nature. Jona discovers that the shadows of the city hide more secrets than she ever realised before, and soon finds herself in great danger. Once again, Marloes Morshuis has created an intensely exciting and engaged juvenile novel that also casts today’s world in a different light.
Rights sold to:
Hungary
The Russian Federation
The Shadows of Radovar
About the author
MARLOES MORSHUIS conquered the children’s book world with Cooking for the Emperor, Borealis and The Shadows of Radovar. She likes to write exciting stories that take children to another world – and at the same time let them look at their own world with different eyes.
conquered the children’s book world with Cooking for the Emperor, Borealis and The Shadows of Radovar. She likes to write exciting stories that take children to another world – and at the same time let them look at their own world with different eyes.
