Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories: Short Stories from the Bestselling Author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
Synopsis
### 'Amal El-Mohtar is quite simply one of the best writers on the scene in ages' T. KINGFISHER Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.
With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.
Full of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories includes 'Seasons of Glass and Iron', 'The Green Book', 'Madeleine', 'The Lonely Sea in the Sky', 'And Their Lips Rang with the Sun', 'The Truth About Owls', 'A Hollow Play', 'Anabasis', 'To Follow the Waves', 'John Hollowback and the Witch', 'Florilegia, or, Some Lies About Flowers', 'Pockets' and more.
PRAISE FOR AMAL EL-MOHTAR:
'Half delicious murder ballad, half beguiling love story, Amal El-Mohtar transports us to Faerieland so seamlessly it seems as though she just stepped out of it' **HOLLY BLACK
'When it comes to storytelling, Amal El-Mohtar is like one of the grammarians of Thistleford, a magician capable of deftly transforming the familiar into the unfamiliar and the numinous into the humane' FONDA LEE**
'Gorgeous and glorious! Every sentence sings!' SARAH BETH DURST
'A beautiful, musical, and loving story, perfectly rendered in El-Mohtar's beautiful, musical, and loving prose' EMMA TÖRZS
Publisher information
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- ISBN: 9781529454451
- Number of pages: 208
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
- Languages: English
