Book DescriptionAlfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano He is also an alchemist, able to make gold from the tears of the fiery salamander одусд he captured from the heart of the mountain Alfredo is his heir, the next Master; and as Alfredo learns the history of his family and its power, he beginsto suspect that his uncle is actually a fearsome sorcerer.  Редактор:2005 г 208 стр ISBN 0440238234.