As
soon as the news of Gollancz acquiring the rights of two new novels by Aliette de Bodard “The House of Shattered Wings”, the first novel scheduled to be
released, has become one of my most anticipated books of 2015. I am happy to
report that “The House of Shattered Wings”, together with its sequel, will be
coming to the U.S. too. Roc Books acquired the rights for the U.S. edition and
in the light of this new information regarding Aliette de Bodard’s upcoming
novel a more detailed synopsis has surfaced as well:
A superb murder mystery, on an epic scale, set
against the fall out – literally – of a war in Heaven.
Paris has survived the Great Magicians War –
just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out
shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among
the wreckage. The citizens continue to live, love, fight and survive in their
war-torn city, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand
capital.
House Silverspires, previously the leader of
those power games, lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder,
Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows
stalks its people inside their very own walls.
Within the House, three very different people
must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen, an alchemist with a
self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells from the
Far East. They may be Silverspires’ salvation. They may be the architects of
its last, irreversible fall…
“The
House of Shattered Wings” will be available, both in U.K. and U.S., on August,
in hardcover editions.
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