Czar Guidon kept his son Safa imprisoned in a tower. His power could only be matched by the witch-girl Chingis. Out of the frozen wastes she studied the words and runes that would give her power to understand the messages of the ghost drum. At last she heard Safa's cries...This book was awarded the 1987 Library Association's Carnegie Medal.
- ISBN10 0374425477
- ISBN13 9780374425470
- Publish Date 1 May 1989 (first published 12 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English