- Imaginary wars and battles, Kings, queens, rulers, Insects, Soldiers
Tynisa is on the run, but she can't escape her inner torment - or atone for the crimes that haunt her. Even as the provinces of the Dragonfly Commonweal crumble around her, the past is catching up with her at last. Her father's ghost is hunting her down.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Tor Books, Pan Macmillan, Tor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330541299
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“She remembered how it felt to lose Salma, first to the wiles of the Butterfly-kinden girl, and then to hear the news of his death, abandoned and alone in the midst of the enemy.”
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.
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