A young rogue named Stint. His childhood friend, Exeter and his wife Deliah. A secret that had been withheld by the brothers of Stroud Monastery and their journey into their untold past. Loyalty, betrayal, tragedy and the fate of Inizar hang in the balance as their destinies unfold. Monitored by ethereal, mystical eyes, Book Two: The Sword of Trystan, will lead the reader toward dark truths, wherein, Book Three: The Dragon's Breath, will hold Inizar's providence to be re-examined.
A young rogue named Stint. His childhood friend, Exeter and his wife Deliah. A secret that had been withheld by the brothers of Stroud Monastery and their journey into their untold past. Loyalty, betrayal, tragedy and the fate of Inizar hang in the balance as their destinies unfold. Monitored by ethereal, mystical eyes, Book Two: The Sword of Trystan, will lead the reader toward dark truths, wherein, Book Three: The Dragon's Breath, will hold Inizar's providence to be re-examined.
A young rogue named Stint. His childhood friend, Exeter and his wife Deliah. A secret that had been withheld by the brothers of Stroud Monastery and their journey into their untold past. Loyalty, betrayal, tragedy and the fate of Inizar hang in the balance as their destinies unfold. Monitored by ethereal, mystical eyes, Book Two: The Sword of Trystan, will lead the reader toward dark truths, wherein, Book Three: The Dragon's Breath, will hold Inizar's providence to be re-examined.
Dit boek is een literaire studie naar Zuid-Aziatische Engelstalige fictie vanaf midden jaren vijftig tot de late jaren tachtig over de afscheiding van Pakistan en Bangladesh van India, oftewel de Partitie. Het is een fascinerend verhaal over het ontstaan van een nieuw literair genre. Romanschrijvers van verschillende generaties geven hun kijk op dit beslissende moment in de Zuid-Aziatische geschiedenis. In het begin beschreven zij de catastrofe, later werd er meer getheoretiseerd. Aan de hand van zes romans, van onder andere Salman Rushdie, laat Roy zien welke factoren bepalend zijn geweest voor de grote thema's en verhaallijnen in deze romans.
A “magical, marvellous” epic of an empire in collapse: Book one in the acclaimed Ottoman Quartet by the award-winning Turkish author and political dissident (La Stampa, Italy). Tracking the decline and fall of the Ottoman empire, Ahmet Altan’s Ottoman Quartet spans fifty years from the end of the nineteenth century to the post-WWI rise of Atatu ̈rk as leader of the new Turkey. In Like a Sword Wound, a modern-day resident of Istanbul is visited by the ghosts of his ancestors, finally free to tell their stories “under the broad, dark wings of death.” Among the characters who come to life are an Ottoman army officer; the Sultan’s personal doctor; a scion of the royal house whose Western education brings him into conflict with his family’s legacy; and a beguiling Turkish aristocrat who, while fond of her emancipated life in Paris, finds herself drawn to a conservative Muslim spiritual leader. As their stories of intimate desire and personal betrayal unfold, the society that spawned them is transforming and the sublime empire disintegrating. Here is a Turkish saga reminiscent of War and Peace, written in lively, contemporary prose that traces not only the social currents of the time but also the erotic and emotional lives of its characters. “An engrossing novel of obsessive love and oppressive tyranny, a tale of collapse that dramatizes the fateful moments of an empire and its subjects.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Pays homage to Pre-Raphaelite painters with feline versions of famous paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, and several other artists
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It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader’s own role. Ari Larissa Heinrich’s translation brings Chi’s hybrid punk sensibility to all readers interested in books that test the limits of where speculative fiction can go.
