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Dreams of the Compass Rose

Dreams of the Compass Rose

by Vera Nazarian
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/03/2013

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This is the 10th Anniversary Edition of the critically acclaimed mythic fantasy classic "collage novel" DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE by two-time Nebula Award Nominee Vera Nazarian. The world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind. The Compass Rose universe -- an ancient milieu where places have no names, cities spring forth like bouquets in the desert, gods and dreams walk the scorching sands in the South, ice floats like mirror shards upon the Northern sea, islands that do not exist are found in the East, death chases a thief on the rooftops of a Western city, immortal love spans time, and directions are intertwined into one road we all travel...You come to this place when you wonder, and sometimes, only when you dream. What is the nature of evil? When a young warrior of a dark race finds himself bound in servitude to a beautiful cruel princess, his loyalty becomes entwined with something more horrifying and mysterious than endless night falling over the ancient desert. When a courageous young servant reveals her hidden wisdom to the madman conqueror of the world, her fate is joined to a nightmare suspended beyond death and outside the universe.
Two souls from different times -- their destinies connected through hundreds of other lives and generations, through soft whispers of the wind, through ancient truths that lie buried in an island between worlds. Both souls enslaved through dream and desire in an endless conflict between truth and illusion. They can only be set free by the wonder of the Compass Rose. "A clever concoction of vignettes and short stories knitted into a morality tale about the temptation of illusion and the price of truth...an exotic setting reminiscent of Tanith Lee's Flat Earth series...The author's sumptuous language will resonate with Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith fans...Nazarian's vital themes and engaging characters are sure to entertain." -Publishers Weekly "The colorful strong writing style that Vera has worked on for years has come to full fruition." -Marion Zimmer Bradley "I love this book. Dreams of the Compass Rose is a story-cycle in which we keep coming back to the same characters, except from different viewpoints and different times in their lives. It's set in a land of desert empires that never was, though it could easily be our world-far in the future, or deep in the past.
Some of the stories are brutal, some are like dreams. All of them are engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history. It reminded me of those wonderful, dream-laden story-cycles that Clark Ashton Smith and Lord Dunsany were writing around the turn of the last century. Dreams of the Compass Rose has a similar stately lyricism, a compelling and visionary voice that speaks to the heart of the reader." -Charles de Lint "Nazarian's story cycle treads the borderline between the episodic novel and the short-story collection...her imagery is rich, vivid, and memorable, not to mention being remarkable because she realizes it not in her native language, Russian, but in English...this is a singularly appealing book by a new voice in fantasy." -ALA Booklist "An intricate multi-level story...a kind of Aesop's Fables...spoken with a voice from the Far East, hypnotic as the desert sands." -Locus
ISBN:
9781607621164
9781607621164
Category:
Fantasy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Norilana Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
398
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x22mm
Weight:
0.58kg

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