Praised by China Miéville, The Times, Guardian and many others, this tale relates the scandalous, heart-breaking and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and theGuardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.
Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour
*China Miéville*
Challenging, intelligent and downright fun
*Guardian*
There are touches of Borges and Nabokov as well as H. P. Lovecraft
in this tale of changing fortunes and shifting relationships . . .
atmospheric
*The Times*
Five stars . . . from an author who should be turning heads in the
'serious' literary world
*BBC Focus Magazine*
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