The House of Shattered Wings - Rilegato

Bodard, Aliette De

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ISBN 10: 0451477383 ISBN 13: 9780451477385

Casa editrice: Roc, 2015

Riassunto

Multi-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy...

In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the aftermath of a Great War between arcane powers. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France’s once grand capital.

Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.

Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen angel; an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction; and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires’ salvation—or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself.

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Praise for Aliette de Bodard

“Her fiction is exciting because it is both familiar and strange.”—Mary Robinette Kowal, author of Valour and Vanity

"A Gothic masterpiece of supernatural intrigues, loves and betrayals in a ruined and decadent future Paris—wildly imaginative and completely convincing, this novel will haunt you long after you've put it down."—Tim Powers, author of The Anubis Gates

“A writer who deserves attention.”—SF Signal

“Aliette de Bodard is one of the hottest things in SF right now.”—Elizabeth Bear, author of Steles of the Sky

L'autore:

Aliette de Bodard is a multi-award-winning author. She is a half-French, half-Vietnamese computer and history geek who lives in Paris and has a special interest in non-Western civilisations, particularly Ancient Vietnam, Ancient China and Ancient Mesoamerica.

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• Editore: Roc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0451477383
• ISBN 13: 9780451477385
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 402