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    The White Tyger
    The White Tyger
    The White Tyger
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    The White Tyger

    By Paul Park

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    This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts college town.

    The narrative is split between our world and the people in Roumania working to protect or to capture Miranda: her Aunt Aegypta Schenck versus the mad Baroness Ceaucescu in Bucharest, and the sinister alchemist, the Elector of Ratisbon, who holds her true mother prisoner in Germany. This is the story of how Miranda -- with her two best friends, Peter and Andromeda -- is brought back to her home reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will have much to learn about their true identities and the strange world they find themselves in.

    This story is a triumph of contemporary fantasy.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 23, 2007
    ISBN9781429989688
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    • 3/5
      Paul Park's penultimate volume in his Roumania quartet is probably the weakest of the series so far, but for all that it's still pretty good. Now in well into the parallel universe, Roumania, Miranda finally meets her ostensible nemesis, the Baroness Ceaucescu. Meanwhile, her two guardians face internal and external struggles of their own, trying to reconcile multiple identities in the most trying of circumstances. The White Tyger is the smallest of the Roumania novels, and rightly so. Whilst Park gives us slightly more insight into the world he's created, actual plot and character development is more limited - though we do get more insight into some characters. It's also the darkest book in a series that wasn't exactly sunshiney to begin with. The chaos and confusion threatening to overwhelm all the characters throughout the books surges forth like a king tide in this volume. The result - whilst it rings true - is frankly a little depressing at times, and in this context the further twists and revelations about the setting feel more rote and less original than in prior novels. On the positive side of the ledger, the characterisation remains rich and multi-faceted. The discomfort Peter and especially Andromeda face in this novel is revealing and interesting, especially in the latter case. Indeed, this is really Andromeda's book, much more so than the others, and in investigating her character, Park drops all pretense of writing a Young Adult book. The White Tyger is more violent than its predecessors, more sexy, more malevolent, confusing and more depraved in the form of the increasingly unstable - pathetic, yet somehow menacing - Baroness. With these two focal points - conflicted, disturbed, chaotic - it's no wonder the book as a whole takes on these attributes. As a result it neither charmed me, nor thrilled me with its fecund imagination like earlier books in the series. However, it does set us up nicely for the concluding volume. The Roumania quartet remains one of the most singular YA series I've ever read, and I'm intrigued to see how - and if - Park manages to conclude it with verve, creativity and closure.
    • 3/5
      This is the third book (in a series of four) that was begun in A Princess of Roumania and it's only getting stranger. In fact, this is one of the strangest plots I've come across in some time. In this outing, Miranda learns more about the mysterious hidden world which seems to be populated by people's animal spirits. And the Baroness Ceausescu must be half-crazy and a cold-hearted bitch besides. She's such an odd character with a weird appeal to various men around her. Some of the stranger developments concern Miranda's friend Andromeda who is really Lieutenant Sasha Prochenko in Roumania. Prochenko seems to vacillate between three modes of existence and not always mutually exclusive. He's both a he (Sasha), a she (Andromeda), and at times, a dog. Or a furry he-she. Strangeness abounds. The Hidden World is the next book.

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