Adventure and Suspense Await You
Cecil Bodker is an award winning author in Denmark for over 30 years, with more than 36 prizes and honors to her name. This is the first book of her Silas series, a masterpiece of 18 volumes translated into many languages.
Silas is a quick thinking, barefoot and sweet -talking 13 year old boy trained to perform on horseback playing his flute in magical eerie melodies that change the mood of even the worst adversary when he gets into a fix. His mother is a trapeeze artist and her boyfriend Phiilip swallows sabers. Silas runs away from the little travelling show and sleeps in a boat as it floats downstream, not eating for days and growing weaker every hour. He rows ashore at a horse mongers place and bets the grumpy owner he can tame his wildest horse. Silas wins the bet, makes off with the horse in a peaceful display of diplomacy and stops at a village where he is plied with strong mead and sausage. They steal his horse and set him adrift on a leaky barge. He meets unusual characters in the countryside who help or hinder him as his search for the lost mare continues and his life unfolds in a series of unconventional adventures. Silas's compassion and uncompromising disregard for meaningless convention open our eyes to our own complacency and need for social renewal. The following books are even more gripping and relentless and luckily the whole series is now being translated into English.
