The Swords of Glass Vol.2 : Ilango
Sylviane Corgiat
• Swords of Glass artwork won artist Laura Zuccheri the Grand Guinigi Award for Best Art at Lucce Festival
• Beautiful art skillfully handpainted.
• Includes an afterword by author Maxim Jakubowski
• All female creative team with strong female protagonist
• Sylviane Corgiat is a prolific French writer who won the Grand Prix du Livre Jeunesse for her YA novel, The Memory Traffickers.
• Includes an afterword by author Maxim Jakubowski.
• Appeals to fans of Studio Ghibli’s films (Hayao Miyazaki’s “Princess Mononoke,” “Spirited Away,” “My Neighbour Totoro”) and epic fantasy.
In a world threatened by the imminent death of its sun, young Yama lives a relatively happy and peaceful life as the daughter of the chief of the village. But everything changes the day a sword of glass falls from the sky, just as the prophecy had announced. Anyone who touches the sword is instantly turned to glass and dies. Orland, the local lord of war, comes to take possession of the unique weapon but fails to retrieve it. In the process, Yama’s father is killed and her mother taken away. Yama, however, escapes and survives with only one thought: when she grows up, she will return to get the sword of glass, and avenge her parents.