Kai Meyer The Cloud People, Volume 1 » Silk and Sword « Coverillustration by Joachim Knappe 12+, June 2006 408 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-5741-9 hardcover 17,90 € (D) Rights sold: Czech, French, Romanian

With Silk and Sword, the first volume of his new "Cloud People Trilogy", best-selling author Kai Meyer demonstrates again his outstanding narrative skills. Nugua has grown up among dragons, but one day they vanish without a trace. Thus the girl embarks on a search in the vast expanses of China. In a world that is foreign to her she meets immortal magicians, flying sword-fighters - and Niccolo, a boy who is also on a quest. For centuries his people have lived on a cloud, high up in the air. But his world is threatened with extinction; and Niccolo has been dispatched to find the one thing that can save his people: the breath of the vanished dragons.

Kai Meyer published his first novel when he was 23 years old. Since then he has written about forty ...