Jepp, Who Defied the Stars - Couverture souple

Fate:

Is it written in the stars from the moment we are born?

Or is it a bendable thing that we can shape with our own hands?

Jepp of Astraveld needs to know.

He left his countryside home on the empty promise of a stranger, only to become a captive in a luxurious prison: Coudenberg Palace, the royal court of the Spanish Infanta. Nobody warned Jepp that as a court dwarf, daily injustices would become his seemingly unshakable fate. If the humiliations were his alone, perhaps he could endure them; but it breaks Jepp's heart to see his friend Lia suffer.

After Jepp and Lia attempt a daring escape from the palace, Jepp is imprisoned again, alone in a cage. Now, spirited across Europe in a kidnapper's carriage, Jepp fears where his unfortunate stars may lead him. But he can't even begin to imagine the brilliant and eccentric new master-a man devoted to uncovering the secrets of the stars-who awaits him. Or the girl who will help him mend his heart and unearth the long-buried secrets of his past.

Masterfully written, grippingly paced, and inspired by real histori­cal characters, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars is the tale of an extraordinary hero and his inspiring quest to become the master of his own destiny.

An only child of divorced parents, journalist Katherine Marsh spent a lot of her youth reading, trading stories with her grandmother who had run a bar in New York, and talking to Truman Capote and other dead New Yorkers on a Ouija Board. After surviving high school and graduating from Yale, Katherine became a teacher and then a journalist. Formerly the deputy editor of The New Republic and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. Marsh has been published in twelve different countries, including Japan, France, Germany and The Netherlands.