To the east all the way to the edge of the Deep Forest, lay the vast sunlit woods where the prey grow fat in autumn, and berries and nuts are plentiful. One interpretation of this prophecy is that Torak must be sacrificed, and his blood taken to the Mountain of the World Spirit. It opens up your eyes to a whole new world and i guarantee that you will never think of a book the same way again! BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

In pre-agricultural Europe, the people of the Forest live in clans, each represented by a particular animal or life form. Fin-Kedinn and Saeunn, the Mage of the Raven Clan, hail Torak as the “Listener” foretold in a clan prophecy.Fin-Keddin also tells Torak that it is his destiny to one day face down and destroy the Soul Eaters. Many critics also commented on the story's oddest aspect, of telling a few chapters of the book from the point of view of a wolf. Before Torak's father dies, he tells Torak to swear an oath to head north and find the Mountain of the World Spirit, and ask the World Spirit to help destroy the bear before it eliminates all life in the Forest. Torak's father also placed him wolf den after his mother died when he was three moons old, which is why he can speak wolf talk.

The Moon of Red Willow is fast approaching: and soon Torak-and only Torak-must face a foe he can neither outrun nor outwit; a foe who stalks him as silently as breath. The kind of story you dream of reading and all too rarely find…The descriptions of an ancient world are wonderful.

He reveals to Torak that at the time of his death, Torak’s father had been engaged in a quest to defeat the Soul Eaters, a gang of renegade mages using evil magic to take over the forest. The prophecy states that the Listener, who "talks with silence and fights with air", will offer his heart's blood to the World Spirit and thereby kill the demon-bear. Torak finds the first part of the Nanuak when he falls into a river, the second part in a cave, and the third part on their treacherous crossing of the Ice River close to The High Mountains. Torak spat into his palm and made a sticky-paste of the ochre, the dark-red blood of the earth, then he drew the small circles on his father’s skin that would help the souls recognize each other and stay together after death.

As he raised his head to stare at the shifting green leaves, the tree murmured secrets to itself, shutting him out.Thousands of years ago, the land is a dark forest, peopled by hunter-gatherers who know every tree and herb.

The book has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, French, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Japanese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Hungarian, Latvian, Danish, Indonesian, Romanian, Icelandic, Turkish, Slovenian and Faroese ( Faroe Islands). Torak couldn’t see beyond the firelight, but he knew that the clearing, too, was a wreck of snapped saplings and trampled bracken. The prophecy states that the Listener, who talks with silence and fights with air, will offer his heart's blood to the World Spirit and thereby kill the demon-bear. There he must ask the World Spirit to help him destroy the bear, otherwise, the bear will kill all life in the forest.Before they get to the Mountain of the World Spirit, the trio must locate the three pieces of the Nanuak; objects the World Spirit has imbued with power. Here's our list of some of the great books that didn't make our final cut, but that you told us were your favourites. When Paver was writing the first draft of Wolf Brother in 2004, she did not originally plan it to be a series of books. They are taken to the Raven camp so Torak's fate can be decided by Fin-Kedinn, the Raven Clan leader. This wasn’t easy, as his father’s chest was scarred from an old wound, so Torak only managed a lopsided oval.