Antonia Michaelis » Tiger Moon « 12+, January 2006 368 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-5356-5 hardcover 4,95 € (D) Rights sold: American English, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish

"A long journey lies before you - you will go through fire, water and wind. And in the end there will be death." These words, spoken by Krishna, are still ringing in Farhad's ears. By the next full moon he has to find the legendary blood stone and hand it over to Suryakanta, the servant of Ravana, the evil king. This is the only way in which he can save Krishna's daughter, the beautiful princess from the marriage with the evil king and an eternity spent in the abyss of darkness. Accompanied by Nitesh, a sacred white tiger with mysterious blue eyes, Farhad, the young master thief, is off on his unpredictable journey through India with no idea of the dangers that lie in store for him…
In her new novel Antonia Michaelis transports her readers to the colourful world of 19th-century India, and tells a story woven from historic and magic fairy-tale elements. In her exciting, beautifully written story she describes a world full of magic and two unlikely heroes who fight their way through the greatest adventure of their lives.

Antonia Michaelis was born in North Germany in 1979. She spent the first two years of her childhood ...