The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
Publication: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 30, 1994), Paperback, ~300pp / ISBN 0374443025
Genre: Historical Fiction, Children’s/YA
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Read: September 2009
It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows again out of the darkness, tough maybe not for the people who saw the light go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind. p. 279 (lifted from The IDD Blog)
This is actually the third book in Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman historical fiction series, but I didn’t realize that until after I had already read it (after first reading The Eagle of the Ninth). Since they’re only loosely connected by plot and family, and since the plot doesn’t continue on from one book to another, I didn’t lose anything by reading it out of order. It did make for a weird deja vu kind of thing when I finally got around to reading book #2, though!
Okay, moving on. Sheesh.
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