Palimpsest

✍ Scribed by Catherynne Valente

• Publisher: Random House, Inc.;Bantam Spectra, Publishers Group UK [distributor]
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 78 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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 strangers 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 cursea voyage permitted only to those whove always believed theres 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. Theyve each lost something importanta wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in lifeand what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.