- Fiction, fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, general, English literature
All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and ready their knives while the people of Myna watch troops gather at its borders. Emotions run high as old fears reawaken.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 672
- Publisher
- Tor, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781447295082
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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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