Synopses & Reviews
The breathtaking climax to Paul Parks lyrical and mesmerizing series. “Park…should be knighted.”--Entertainment Weekly
The Hidden World is the concluding volume in Paul Parks remarkable tale of Roumania, a world that is both more real and yet also more mysterious and magical than our own.
After finding out that she is the lost princess of Roumania and the mythical White Tyger, Mirandas fate is still uncertain. The ghosts of her enemies cluster about her, the insane spirit of the Baroness takes possession of her body for a time, and demons released by her mother are abroad. And through it all her heart calls out to Peter, away with the army, whom she has come to love, and her best friend Andromeda, sworn to help her and protect her. There are no easy answers; it all looks impossible. Any hope may lie in the hidden world of spirits, where death is but an inconvenience.
Review
“Deft, inventive, and intelligent, The White Tyger opens a window onto a world where imagination rules. This is as deeply pleasurable to read as Madeleine LEngles A Wrinkle in Time or Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy.”
--Andrea Barrett on The White Tyger
“A girlish daydream becomes all too real in this masterpiece of contemporary fantasy. To compare Paul Park with Philip Pullman or John Crowley gives a hint of the kind of satisfaction his fiction provides.”
--Ursula K. LeGuin on A Princess of Roumania
“A Princess of Roumania is at once a vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art. A huge achievement.”
--John Crowley on A Princes of Roumania
“His people are alive, exasperating, and exhilarating. His world is a grand creation, complex and inventive, charming and threatening, real and impossible, as our own.”
--Michael Swanwick on Paul Park
Review
Praise for The Hidden World:
“The Hidden World caps, justifies and properly closes Paul Park's Great Roumania quartet, whose first volumes are A Princess of Roumania, The Tourmaline and The White Tyger. It is a great book. . . . The last pages of The Hidden World are as complex as life itself.”
--The Washington Post Book World
“Paul Park concludes his tale of Miranda Popescu and an alternate Romania amid war in the physical world and treachery in the hidden world of sorcery. . . . it pays to read all four books —starting with A Princess of Roumania— in this magnificent, sophisticated fantasy series.”
--The Denver Post
“Park has left a stamp on fantasy that will be profound and enduring….Rich and strange and deeply relevant to our times…Park writes grown-up fantasy for real people, even if his main characters—Miranda, Pieter, and Andromeda—are, or rather begin, as children.”
--Realms of Fantasy
“This exciting and satisfying fourth and final volume of Parks much-praised series . . . [is] beautifully written. . . . Provides a fitting and triumphant conclusion to the series.”
--Publishers Weekly
“Satisfying…. Miranda is one of the most interesting heroines in contemporary fantasy.”
--Booklist
“Complex and brilliantly realized….subverts a good deal of what we might expect from a more conventional fantasy…. [A] surprising yet satisfactory conclusion to a most unusual epic.”
--Locus (Gary K. Wolfe)
Synopsis
The breathtaking climax to Paul Parks lyrical and mesmerizing series. “Park…should be knighted.”--Entertainment Weekly
The Hidden World is the concluding volume in Paul Parks remarkable tale of Roumania, a world that is both more real and yet also more mysterious and magical than our own.
After finding out that she is the lost princess of Roumania and the mythical White Tyger, Mirandas fate is still uncertain. The ghosts of her enemies cluster about her, the insane spirit of the Baroness takes possession of her body for a time, and demons released by her mother are abroad. And through it all her heart calls out to Peter, away with the army, whom she has come to love, and her best friend Andromeda, sworn to help her and protect her. There are no easy answers; it all looks impossible. Any hope may lie in the hidden world of spirits, where death is but an inconvenience.
About the Author
Paul Park is the author of A Princess of Roumania, The Tourmaline, The White Tyger, Sugar Rain, and Celestis. He lives in North Adams, MA.