Bücher von Sofia Samatar

The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatars weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.Praise for Sofia Samatars Books:The excerpt from Sofia Samatars compelling novel A Stranger in Olondria should be enough to make you run out and buy the book. Just dont overlook her short Selkie Stories Are for Losers, the best story about loss and love and selkies Ive read in years. K. Tempest Bradford, NPRAn imaginative, poetic, and dark meditation on how history gets made. Hello BeautifulPleasantly startling and unexpected. Her prose is by turns sharp and sumptuous, and always perfectly controlled. . . . There are strains here too of Jane Austen and something wilder.Publishers Weekly (starred review)Like an alchemist, Sofia Samatar spins golden landscapes and dazzling sentences. Shelf Awareness (starred review)Beauty, wonder, and a soaring paean to the power of story.Jason Heller, NPRHighly recommended. N. K. Jemisin, New York Times Book ReviewSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld, among others, and has won the John W. Campbell Award, the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Virginia.

An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, Monster Portraits offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s.

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. 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. 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.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. 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.A Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. R. Martin and Joe Hill.