This was a mesmerizing read. It takes place around the French Revolution with a fourteen-year-old gypsey named Yann at the center of the story. Yann is an orphan raised by a dwarf and the magician they work for. At a performance for local royalty the magician is murdered by a man that it is obvious the dwarf knows, and has had dealings with in the past. The murder puts Yann and the dwarf, Tetu, on the run, but not before meeting the young daughter, Sido, of the very aristocrat they have just performed for. From this point on their lives are forever entwined. This romantic historic novel, like its gypsey hero, plays out like a tail being spun by a gypsey--all the way to its climactic ending.
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