Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

Com mais de 30 livros publicados, a americana Lois Lowry já recebeu diversos prêmios por sua obra, como o Boston Globe-Horn Book, o Dorothy Canfield Fisher, o Mark Twain e a Medalha John Newbery, concedida pela Association for Libray Service to Children, pelos livros Numbers the Stars e O Doador.