by Rafael Ábalos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724147574
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«Grimpow. O Caminho Invisível» is Rafael Ábalos's young adult fantasy novel, published in 2007 by Edições Asa in paperback (480 pages, in Portuguese).
In the winter of 1313, young Grimpow finds the corpse of a knight with a strange stone, a dagger, gold coins, and a coded message. With Salietti De Estaglia he follows a trail of riddles to an abbey taken over by the Inquisition, the Templar secrets, and the philosopher's stone, coveted by the Church and the French Crown.
First instalment of the Grimpow series. The Spanish original, «Grimpow el camino invisible», was published in 2005; this Portuguese edition, in 2007.
A work aimed at young readers and fans of medieval fantasy and riddles.
Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN 0385733747) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in Publishers Weekly, Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by Random House.
