- Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Magic
"In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness ebgulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it..."
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- N. K. Jemisin
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Dex, Orbit, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Spanish, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780748117130
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