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The Winged Histories
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Series: Olondria, Book 2
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781618731371
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: Apr 25 2017
Pages: 337
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Four women, soldier, scholar, poet, and socialite are caught up on different sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their families are torn apart, they fear they may disappear into the unwritten pages of history. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history.
Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar's award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Winged Histories is the saga of an empire--and a family: their friendships, their enduring love, their arcane and deadly secrets. Samatar asks who makes history, who endures it, and how the turbulence of historical change sweeps over every aspect of a life and over everyone, no matter whether or not they choose to seek it out.
Praise for The Winged Histories:
Like an alchemist, Sofia Samatar spins golden landscapes and dazzling sentences.... a fantasy novel for those who take their sentences with the same slow, unfolding beauty as a cup of jasmine tea, and for adventurers like Tav, who are willing to charge ahead into the unknown.--Shelf Awareness (starred review)
A highly recommended indulgence.
--N.K. Jemisin, New York Times Book Review
Above all, it's a story about love--the terrible love that tears lives apart. Doomed love; impossible love; love that requires a rewriting of the rules, be it for a country, a person, or a story.--Jenn Northington, Tor.com
An imaginative, poetic, and dark meditation on how history gets made.
--Hello Beautiful
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