Publisher's Synopsis
They call him Lump. Ugly, misshapenmore goblin than human childabandoned as an infant and taken in by a witch, he is nursed by a bear, tutored by a djinn; his only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose languages he learns to speak. But when Lump inevitably stumbles into the human world, his innocence is no match for the depths of peoples cruelty, which turns Lumps heart to stone, and fuels a vengeance that places him and his witch mother in deadly peril. Yet these disasters also send Lump on a journey of self-discovery to realms deep within the earth and far beyond mortal imagination. In this stunning fantasy debut, Michael Gruber has created a world of cruelty, beauty, legend, truth, and above all, wonder.
