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John Millen

The Last Elf
By Silvana De Mari
Published by Bloomsbury
ISBN 0 747 5 7767 6
Being the last of anything is never easy because it always involves a struggle to survive.
A young elf called Yorsh lives in a bleak time where fear and desolation cloak the world. Humans and elves cannot live together and one is destined to destroy the other.
Elf society is civilised and literate. This frightens the less civilised humans and a struggle begins. Only one race will survive. As human grip on the world increases, the elves are rounded up and put into prison camps.
Torrential rain storms devastate the land and the elf prison camps are destroyed. Only Yorsh survives and he escapes into the rain to find a new life. His goals are simple. He wants to find warmth, food and shelter and leave the cold, rain and despair behind him. But it's not as simple as that. The Last Elf follows Yorsh into a hostile world.
Silvana De Mari takes us on fascinating journey as Yorsh searches for a life worth living. Soon, the last elf is befriended by two kindly humans, a strange woman and a hunter.
The three of them are captured and imprisoned, but they escape and then things really hot up. Yorsh comes across an age-old prophecy that lays out a future role for the last elf.
Yorsh knows he is the elf in the prophecy. There is a lot going on in The Last Elf, and the story works on many levels. Yorsh and his companions come up against expected adventures and challenges.



An elf's bleak struggle for survival