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The Fifty Year Sword
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.
FictionFantasyContemporaryLiteraryThrillersSuspense
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author. He is most widely known for his debut novel *House of Leaves* (2000), which won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His second novel, *Only Revolutions* (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award. **Source**: [Mark Z. Danielewski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Danielewski) on Wikipedia.
3.0
The Fifty Year Sword
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.
FictionFantasyContemporaryLiteraryThrillersSuspense
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author. He is most widely known for his debut novel *House of Leaves* (2000), which won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His second novel, *Only Revolutions* (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award. **Source**: [Mark Z. Danielewski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Danielewski) on Wikipedia.
