Palimpsest

• Verfasst von: Valente, Catherynne M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Palimpsest
• Titelzusatz: enter a city where everything and everyone is more that it seems
• Verf.angabe: Catherynne M. Valente
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Random House
• Jahr: 2009
• Umfang: 367 Seiten
• ISBN: 978-0-553-38576-2
• Dokumenttyp: Fiktionale Darstellung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1871697883

Abstract

Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse--a voyage permitted only to those who've always believed there's another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They've each lost something important--a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life--and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.