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The House of Shattered Wings: An epic fantasy murder mystery set in the ruins of fallen Paris
Aliette de Bodard
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy, Religious & spiritual fiction, Monsters & legendary beings
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Gollancz
- Paperback Sep 13, 2016 | 9781473212572 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2015 | 9781409160410 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 20, 2015 | 9781473212589 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Gollancz
- Paperback Sep 13, 2016 | 9781473212572 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2015 | 9781409160410 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 20, 2015 | 9781473212589 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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A superb murder mystery, on an epic scale, set against the fall out - literally - of a war in heaven
Paris in the aftermath of the Great Magicians War. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black, thick with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France's once grand capital.
House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.
Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen, an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells from the Far East. They may be Silverspires' salvation; or the architects of its last, irreversible fall . . .
Praise for The House of Shattered Wings: An epic fantasy murder mystery set in the ruins of fallen Paris
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A few times in a lifetime, a book comes along that wraps you completely in its world and its characters. You walk its streets, smell its flowers, breathe its air alongside the characters as their stories become your story, their lives your life. House of Shattered Wings is one of those books; convincing, gripping and filled with wonders - Kari Sperring
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an intriguing mystery, elegantly written... with carefully crafted characters both with layers and depth, De Bodard reflects the best and worst of human nature in her novel - The Guardian
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There's an intelligence-and, yes, an elegance-to The House of Shattered Wings that is as rare and precious as angel essence. - TOR.COM
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The devastated Paris of Aliette de Bodard's novel is especially haunting. This is partly because de Bodard, a Nebula Award-winning French-Vietnamese writer, lives in Paris and can convey a visceral sense of immediacy to a ruined Notre Dame or the remains of the grand department stores, and partly it's because of the sheer lyricism of her prose...A series of mysterious deaths turns the novel into a surprising but compelling murder mystery, which plays out according to the supernatural terms de Bodard has laid out so evocatively. - The Chicago Tribune
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De Bodard aptly mixes moral conflicts and the desperate need to survive in a fantastical spy thriller that reads like a hybrid of le Carre and Milton, all tinged with the melancholy of golden ages lost. - Publishers Weekly
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard is one of the Writers of the Future, has won two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and a BSFA Award. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, making her one of our most-lauded contemporary fiction writers. A writer by night, by day she is a qualified engineer, specialising in Applied Mathematics. She lives in Paris, in a flat with more computers than she really needs. You can learn more at www.aliettedebodard.com or by following @aliettedb on twitter.
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