Description: Ivan, an American graduate student, returns to his native Russia, where he discovers a sleeping princess in the forest, awakens her with a kiss, and enters a fairy-tale world that vanished a thousand years ago. A rich tapestry of clashing worlds, Enchantment transforms the Sleeping Beauty story into an original novel of a love and a fate that transcends centuries.
Brief description:
Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. The author of numerous books in several genres, Card is best known for Ender's Game and his online magazine, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (oscIGMS.com). He teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University and lives with his family in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Review Quotes:
"[A] masterpiece of the fantastic...this is a novel to savor...delicious."
-- "Rocky Mountain News"