The City in Glass
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
4.5
Nghi Vo
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.An NPR Best Book of the Year | An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick A demon. An angel. A city. The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot. And then the angels come, and the city falls. Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned. She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever. Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again. The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Author
Nghi Vo
Pages
224
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Published Date
2024-10-01
ISBN
1250348285 9781250348289
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"This story was not at all what I expected, but it has left a mark on me. The demon Vitrine loves the city of Azril. She knows every inch of space within its boundaries, and she has followed its people for generations. One day the angels come, and her city falls. Vitrine is angry and heartbroken over this loss, and longs to destroy the angel responsible for its destruction. The angel and demon become locked in an eternal battle that remaps the city of Azril and changes their hearts. When war threatens to take all that they have made together, they must decide together if they will let the city fall again. The overall story feels both sparce and poetic in a way that can’t really be described. The book reads like the history of a lost land that we will never know, but on each page is love. A love for life, and all the people that make up a life. A love of death and all the steps that brought each person to that place. A love of memory and change, that both come with grief and struggle. Beneath it all is a desire that redeems. This book felt like a better executed version of This is How You Lose the Time War (but with a completely different plot and genre)."
Nicole Falche
