| Palimpsest Contributor(s): Valente, Catherynne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553385763 ISBN-13: 9780553385762 Publisher: Random House Worlds OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: From the author of "The Orphan's Tales" comes an erotic and exotic tale of four lost souls mapping a fantastical city. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Absurdist |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008035650 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.34" W x 8.28" (0.61 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger's kiss.... Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse--a voyage permitted only to those who've always believed there's another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They've each lost something important--a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life--and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine. |