The Fifty Year Sword

By Mark Z. Danielewski

In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller's tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307907724
• ISBN13: 9780307907721
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 9.3"