386 2cd6f280-fed6-4476-b928-ff2421c6eb0c Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente calibre (3.32.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 2009-02-24T05:00:00+00:00 <p class="description">Hugo Novella Winner 2010 EDITORIAL REVIEW: **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.</p> Random House, Inc. 9780553385762 eng Fantasy Fantasy fiction Contemporary Fiction - Fantasy Fiction General Science Fiction And Fantasy Fantasy - Contemporary Erotic fiction Hugo 2010 Nominated Locus F 2010 Nominated Nominated Locksmiths Girls Urban Life Bookbinders Beekeepers