& King Solomon's
Coin of Fortune
- A Novel by Getty Ambau -
Desta, a seven year-old boy and his middle aged father, Abraham, are on separate but parallel missions. The boy dreams of climbing one of the mountains that circles his home to touch the sky and run his fingers through the clouds. The father yearns to find his own long lost father. Each faces a series of obstacles and each ultimately realizes his dream, although not in the way he hoped.
In the center of this sweeping novel is a 2800-year old Solomonic gold coin, a family heirloom that went missing along with the vanished grandfather forty years earlier. A symbol of the family's financial success and personal pride, this coin is one of the reasons why Abraham grew up fatherless and why his mother abandoned her farmland estate and came to settle in an isolated, mountainous valley, thereby setting the family saga in motion.
Young Adult Comments
I thought it was an amazing novel! It was very different from
most books I have read... One of the few books I can read for a long time in one
sitting without feeling tired of it... I loved the characters. I also
enjoyed the setting...
- Justin K.
Desta really touched my heart!... I thought the story was magical,
supernatural, inspirational and a treat to read! I cried
twice...
- Guecela. S.
I really enjoyed
reading Desta... It was different from all the books that I have
read. Every time I went to read the book, I felt like I was temporarily entering
a whole new world...
- Kayla C.
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Adult Reader Comments
It's brilliant and wonderful... It's unlike anything I've read before. I love this book. I really love it. It's incredibly visual, moving, funny and mysterious.
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