Palimpsest: A Novel
by Valente, Catherynne
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- ISBN 10
- 0553385763
- ISBN 13
- 9780553385762
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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ambis Enterprises LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- OTF-S-9780553385762
- Title
- Palimpsest: A Novel
- Author
- Valente, Catherynne
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553385763
- ISBN 13
- 9780553385762
- Publisher
- Spectra
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2009-02-24
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