The Etched City: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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“Combine equal parts of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Chine Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you’ll get some idea of this disturbing, decadent first novel.”—Publishers Weekly

Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on thelosing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner,a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believesin just—and lost—causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, togetherthey flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among thedesperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the householdof a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselvesimmersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid andfrightening miracles begin to bloom . . .

“The plot, with its stories-within-stories and its offhand s of wonders and prodigies, brings to mind the works of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.”—Locus