{"subjects": ["Boys", "Magic", "Fiction", "Fiction, fantasy, general"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Two boys, separated by hundreds of years will never know each other--yet together they will battle a great evil at the very heart of the world--The Child Eater. One, Matyas, resides in a medieval world whose power rests with the Academy of Wizards. The other, Simon Wisdom, in present-day America. Their lives are vastly different: as a boy, Matyas is viciously beaten by his innkeeper father, yet he will grow up to become the greatest magician. Simon is deeply loved by his widowed father, Jack, yet even a father's dedication is helpless against the psychic terrors that overwhelm Simon from his earliest years. Matyas and Simon both suffer the same horrific visions: a dark tunnel, pieces of bodies, disembodied heads of children pleading for help. When a new boy's body is found without a head Matyas learns a terrible secret: a magician can live forever by devouring the lives of children. The magician who does this has hidden his name so no one can work a spell against him. He is the Child Eater."}, "key": "/works/OL20008242W", "title": "The child eater", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL20317A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [10739040], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T04:32:18.682583"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-10T06:29:35.791860"}}