Новинки Софии Саматар

Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny autobiography of otherness, it offers the record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of mixed-race children growing up Somali-American in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday—Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a…

The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar’s weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.

Four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history

Jevick, syn handlarza pieprzu, wychowywał się na opowieściach o Olondrii, odległej krainie, gdzie ksiąki – niezwykle rzadkie w jego ojczyźnie – są czymś często spotykanym. Po śmierci ojca Jevick wyrusza zamiast niego na coroczną wyprawę handlową do Olondrii. Jego życie wydaje się bliskie doskonałości, ale gdy raduje się Świętem Ptaków, zaczyna go prześladować duch niepiśmiennej dziewczyny z jego ojczyzny.
Zdesperowany Jevick szuka pomocy u olondryjskich kapłanów i staje się pionkiem w rozgrywce między dwiema najpotężniejszymi frakcjami w imperium. Pojawia się groźba wojny domowej. Jevick musi stawić czoło duchowi i poznać jego historię. Ta próba stanowi wyzwanie dla jego wyobrażeń o sztuce i życiu, o domu i wygnaniu...

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. 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. 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. 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. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp…