by Rafael Ábalos · Albin Michel Jeunesse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226170187
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«Grimpow, l'élu des Templiers» is the fantasy novel by Rafael Ábalos, published by Albin Michel Jeunesse in paperback (505 pages, in French).
In the winter of 1313, Grimpow, a young bandit, discovers a corpse on a snowy road in the Alps. Beside the dead man he finds an amulet, a gold seal, two daggers and a parchment with cabalistic signs. The amulet gives off a strange warmth in his hand and, although he has never learned to read, the signs are revealed to him. That discovery leads him to a world of codes, enigmatic maps and Templar secrets.
First installment of the Grimpow saga. Original work in Spanish, «Grimpow el camino invisible», translated by Isabelle Gugnon for this edition.
Aimed at young readers aged 12 and over and at those who enjoy historical fantasy and medieval mysteries.
Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN 0385733747) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in Publishers Weekly, Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by Random House.
