Palimpsest Palimpsest

Palimpsest

A Novel

    • 4.3 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description

In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.…

Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They’ve each lost something important—a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life—and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2009
February 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Worlds
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
4.6
MB

Customer Reviews

SpeakerToManagers ,

Fabulous

This book brings together beautiful and intricate prose, fascinating characters, a sense of place that evokes locations in our mundane world and in the world of the title city, and Catherynne Valente’s ability to write in a wide range of voices. I read it very slowly, often only a few pages at a time, to be sure I was getting as much as I could out of each paragraph. It was worth it.

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