A stranger in olondria summary6/11/2023 10143883 Cataloging source HLS Samatar, Sofia Dewey number 813/. 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 StorylineĪward World Fantasy Award, 2014. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Thus A Stranger in Olondria is full of quotes from Olondrian tales and poetry, and the novel is very much about the joys and perils of stories and reading. 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. 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. 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. Language eng 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. Label A stranger in Olondria : a novel Title A stranger in Olondria Title remainder a novel Statement of responsibility Sofia Samatar Creator SS: I conceived the A Stranger in Olondria story as a two-book project from the beginning, and had a basic idea of how the two parts would connect and.
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