The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation Egmont and everyone

and everyone

is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West

Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence and terror of childhood

this sparkling novel reaches an exciting and very surprising conclusion

with the victim pierced by an arrow and holding a card of "Death and the Arrow"

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation Egmont and everyoneA gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED. It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother a princess in exile from a faraway land are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia,