The Statuary Gardens
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ISBN13: 9798896230649
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
A haunting sci-fi fantasy about a world where women are hidden away, men cultivate living statues, and a there is a mysterious rebellion on the rise, now in English for the first time. In an unnamed country where the men cultivate statues and the women are nowhere to be seen, a traveler, staying at a lonely inn, is taken on a tour of the walled estates and introduced to the gardeners' elaborate cultural practices and traditions. But all is not well in the statuary country. Rumor has it that a renegade has rallied the violent nomadic hordes on the northern steppes to his cause. But what is this cause? And will this world of men, which has sealed women away behind walls within walls, survive the injustice eating at its roots? The traveler is on the road to find out.
A cult classic in France--and the inaugural book in Jacques Abeille's semilegendary ten-volume Countries Cycle--The Statuary Gardens appears here in English for the first time. It is a science-fiction novel that builds, in beautiful language, a meticulous, almost primeval world, bearing comparison with the work of Franz Kafka, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Hayao Miyazaki.
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