The City in Glass
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.
An NPR Best Book of the Year | An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick
A demon. An angel. A city.
The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.
And then the angels come, and the city falls.
Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.
Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hugo Award winner Vo (Siren Queen) delivers an astonishing standalone novel of grief, retribution, and love that evokes the best of Italo Calvino and Ursula K. Le Guin. Vitrine, a capricious and powerful demon, has nurtured the city of Azril into a vibrant metropolis bursting with joy, chaos, and hedonism. Her world shatters when angels descend, reducing her beloved city to ruins. Grieving, Vitrine captures one of the angels responsible for the devastation and binds him to her with a curse. As Vitrine mourns and attempts to rebuild, her feelings toward the angel, who remains nameless and enigmatic despite now being her constant companion, evolve from vengeful hatred into something profound and complex. Their relationship, marked by both conflict and connection, unearths forgotten histories and ignites a transformative journey that reshapes them and their world. Vo's nonlinear narrative anchors itself in the powerful emotions and memories that bind Vitrine to both her city and the angel. In poetic and evocative prose, Vo draws readers into the richly textured world of Azril while gracefully exploring themes of love, loss, and redemption. This beautifully crafted tale of resilience and transformation may be Vo's best yet.
