Catherynne M. Valente
Paperback | Pages: 367 pages Rating: 3.66 | 4515 Users | 792 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Palimpsest |
| ISBN: | 0553385763 (ISBN13: 9780553385762) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/novels/palimpsest/ |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2010), Gaylactic Spectrum Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror (2010) |
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In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.…Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They’ve each lost something important—a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life—and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.
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| Title | : | Palimpsest |
| Author | : | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 367 pages |
| Published | : | February 24th 2009 by Spectra (first published January 1st 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Urban Fantasy. Magical Realism. Science Fiction. Steampunk |
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Ratings: 3.66 From 4515 Users | 792 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Palimpsest
The first thing that strikes you about this book is the gorgeous prose. Every sentence is crafted with the utmost care, resulting in a novel that almost reads like poetry. It simply begs to be read out loud. I've read many books that attempt this kind of lush prose, but Palimpsest is one of the most successful and most beautiful.Palimpsest is a sexually transmitted city. People who have been there have a small tattoo - a piece of the city's map - somewhere on their body. Sleep with them and youSex and sleep with a marked individual is the way to the city of Palimpsest, a mystical and deadly place that exists beyond the borders of our world.The first time you cross over, your spirit is bound with four other travelers. For what purpose, no one knows."Where you go in Palimpsest, you are bound to these strangers who happened onto Orlande's salon just when you did, and you will go nowhere, eat no capon or dormouse, drink no oversweet port that they do not also taste, and they will visit no
Did I, a brand-spankin'-new gynecologist, just read a book about a sexually transmitted city??? Yeah, I guess so much for that whole 'don't bring your work home' thing..."To touch a person... to sleep with a person... is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to
Let's be honest. The reason this book has sat on my shelf for months is because it just isn't my style. Three months later and only halfway through, and I find it time to resignedly face defeat. I love Valente's lush prose; the vivid detail that appeals to all my senses and perfectly conjures a scene. I just have a hard time with the underlying sexually transmitted disease/desire imagery, and am finding the characters a challenge to care about in their obsession. She--or I--might have bit off a
My book club selection for the month.I'd heard Valente described as a steampunk author, but I reallywouldn't classify this as being in that genre. I've yet to acquire herother books, but I'm on the lookout for them!Outside of our reality, there is a city called Palimpsest. Those whohave visited the city mysteriously acquire a tattoo-like marksomewhere on their skin - and an inexplicable desire, almost anaddiction, driving them to return. The only way the city can beentered is through sex with
Definitely not for everyone, but read this if you want incredible, fanciful prose and entrance into a world defined by Valente's capacious imagination. An incredible journey to a city real and unreal.
Books create whole other worlds, and nowhere is this phenomenon more explicit than in fantasy and science fiction. More than just telling a story, great books transport the reader to a new setting, one where the rules might be different. It takes impossibilities and makes them possible. The author, then, is more than a storytellerhe or she is an architect, a craftsman executing a careful and intricate design. This is what we often mean when we speak of worldbuilding.Depending upon how the term
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