Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers. Her days are consumed by the search for knowledge about the strange mark—an untranslatable Hin character—burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Amélie Wen Zhao
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books, Random House Publishing Group, Ember
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780008521387
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