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The Untranslatable
Paperback
Series: Patron Saints of Small Things, Book 4
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Novena Falls, the words for small mercies are going quiet. Not forgotten - scraped, one at a time, so gently that each soul believes the grey is theirs alone. The word for the held bus. A child's word for sleep. The private name a dying man keeps for the gold light at the end of a day's work. And the gods of the overlooked are made of prayers: you cannot pray for what you cannot name - and the mercy you cannot name starves.
From the Ambry - a former telephone exchange kept alive by love long after the world stopped needing it - the household of small gods mounts the unlikeliest defence ever raised against oblivion: a hoard of kept words, a choir of the unaverageable, and a god of the tip-of-the-tongue who becomes, to everyone's surprise including his own, the keystone of a war.
Then they discover the flattening can be undone - and go down into the grey itself, to bring back a town the machine swallowed thirty years ago.
Warm, funny, and quietly enormous, The Untranslatable is the fourth book of the Patron Saints of Small Things - for readers of Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and anyone who has ever had their own private word for something.
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