Alphabet of Dreams (2006 Fletcher), novel

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Alphabet of Dreams (2006) is a novel by Susan Fletcher.

Abstract

"Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem ... Young Babak has a magnificent gift: He can dream the future. Mitra, his brave older sister, is sworn to protect him. For them to survive living on the streets, she must do whatever is necessary -- including using her brother's talent for profit. When Babak is asked to dream for a powerful Magus, he receives a mysterious vision of two stars dancing in the night. Determined to solve this prophetic riddle, the Magus takes the boy and his sister on an arduous journey across the desert. What they discover will change the world in a way that no dream could ever predict."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in the United States (New York, NY: Atheneum, 2006).

Translations

• Alphabet der Träume = Alphabet of Dreams (2007 @2006 Fletcher / Kollmann), novel (German ed.)

• El alfabeto de los sueños = Alphabet of Dreams (2007 @2006 Fletcher / Larrea), novel (Spanish ed.)

• L'alphabet des rêves = Alphabet of Dreams (2007 @2006 Fletcher / Morgaut), novel (French ed.)

• L'alfabeto dei sogni = Alphabet of Dreams (2007 @2006 Fletcher / Cravero), novel (Italian ed.)

• Alfabet snów = Alphabet of Dreams (2008 @2006 Fletcher / Karolak), novel (Polish ed.)

• 星が導く旅のはてに = Alphabet of Dreams (2010 @2006 Fletcher / Tominaga), novel (Japanese ed.)