A Stranger in Olondria
by:
Sofia Samatar (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781931520775 (1931520771)
Publish date: April 12th 2013
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Beautiful, slow-paced, sad. Linear storytelling makes it a more accessible starting point than The Winged Histories.
This book has some of the most gorgeous language I've read in years. It is lush, rich, and evocative. In places it reads like long form poetry (which should come as no huge shock since Samatar writes poetry as well). It reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Percy Shelley. Here's the thing though...
105. A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA, BY SOFIA SAMATAR Recommended to me by an old friend, who I hadn’t seen in a long time. Synopsis: Jevick’s father decides to hire an Olondrian tutor for him. Olondria is a faraway land, much different from Jevick’s birthplace, and seems like a fairy tale to him. When his ...
I’ve been meaning to read Samatar’s debut since it came out two years ago. It’s a really engrossing book, which probably deserves more space than I can give it here. It’s about family and myth and home, about history and colonialism. But most of all it’s about books, and a relationship with books. S...
The writing in this book is unbelievably beautiful. So much so that I kept going after the first 30%, where nothing happened at all. Okay, not entirely nothing, but not enough to fill more than a dozen pages of my usual fare. Most of this initial section is devoted to the narrator's love of boo...
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