![]() ![]() 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.Ī Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. Enjoy this excerpt from A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar, out on April 16 from Small Beer Press: Jevick, the pepper merchant’s son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land. When you disrupt a culture’s relationship with the dead, you disrupt its relationship with the past and its future. At the very level of story, A Stranger in Olondria links literature with a particular and potent form of cultural disruptionthe culture of death, mourning and afterlife. 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. A Stranger in Olondria resonates alongside this debate. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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