Selfia knows what it means to survive. After her father was brutally
murdered, she fled into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches
her how to gather, hunt, follow a trail, and steal. But when her aunt is
kidnapped, none of these skills will help rescue her. The only clue to
both her aunt's disappearance and her father's murder is the odd
rectangular object her father left behind, an object she comes to
realize is a book--a marvelous item unheard of in her otherwise
illiterate society. With the help of the magic this book contains, and
the presence of a mysterious stranger with his own secrets, Selfia sets
out to rescue her aunt and find out what really happened to her father.
With overlapping stories of swashbuckling pirates and merciless
assassins, La lectora is a brilliantly told adventure from an
extraordinary new talent.