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A stranger in Olondria, being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom, by Sofia Samatar

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A stranger in Olondria, being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom, by Sofia Samatar

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A stranger in Olondria

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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841413268

Responsibility statement

by Sofia Samatar

Sub title

being the complete memoirs of the mystic, Jevick of Tyom

Summary

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 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

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