A stranger in Olondria : being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom / Sofia Samatar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samatar, Sofia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Fiction.

Books and reading.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Physical Description:

299 pages : map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press ; [Minneapolis] : Distributed to the trade by Consortium, [2013]

Summary:

Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading.

Notes:

"A novel."

ISBN:

1931520763

9781618730626

1618730622

9781931520768

9781931520775

1931520771

OCLC:

756582258

Publisher Number:

99963033525