A Stranger in Olondria
a novel
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2013
320 pages
978-1-931520-77-5 (ISBN)
Description
Time Magazine: 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time · World Fantasy, British Fantasy, & Crawford Award winner
Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl.
In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading. A Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. R. Martin and Joe Hill.More details
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Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. She is the recipient of the William L. Crawford Award, the Astounding Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature, African literature, and speculative fiction at James Madison University.
Content
- Intro
- Book One
- The Wind of Miracles
- Chapter One
- Childhood in Tyom
- Chapter Two
- Master Lunre
- Chapter Three
- Doorways
- Book Two
- The City of Bain
- Chapter Four
- At Sea
- Chapter Five
- City of My Heart
- Chapter Six
- The Feast of Birds
- Chapter Seven
- From a Somnambulist's Notebook
- Book Three
- The Holy City
- Chapter Eight
- The Tower of Myrrh
- Chapter Nine
- The Gray Houses
- Chapter Ten
- Midnight in the Glass Forest
- Chapter Eleven
- The Girdle of Avalei
- Chapter Twelve
- Tialon's Story
- Book Four
- The Breath of Angels
- Chapter Thirteen
- Into the Valley
- Chapter Fourteen
- The Night Market
- Chapter Fifteen
- This Happy Land
- Chapter Sixteen
- The Courage of Hivnawir
- Book Five
- A Garden of Spears
- Chapter Seventeen
- The House of the Horse, My Palace
- Chapter Eighteen
- Spring
- Book Six
- Southward
- Chapter Nineteen
- Bonfire
- Chapter Twenty
- The Sound of the World
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Jissavet's Alphabet
- Acknowledgments
