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A stranger in Olondria : being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom
- Title
- A stranger in Olondria : being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom / by Sofia Samatar.
- Author
- Samatar, Sofia
- Publication
- Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press ; [Minneapolis] : Distributed to the trade by Consortium, [2013]
- ©2013
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 23-259 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2600 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 299 pages : map; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "A novel."
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-259
- ISBN
- 9781618730626
- 1618730622
- 9781931520768
- 1931520763
- 9781931520775 (canceled/invalid)
- 1931520771 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012020482
- OCLC
- 756582258
- Author
- Samatar, Sofia, author.
- Title
- A stranger in Olondria : being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom / by Sofia Samatar.
- Publisher
- Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press ; [Minneapolis] : Distributed to the trade by Consortium, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-259JFD 20-2600