Nest of Worlds

Description:


Nest of Worlds is the first novel to appear in English from contemporary Polish science fiction master Marek S. Huberath. A metafictional adventure through a dystopian world that owes as much to Borges, Saramago, and even Thomas More as it does to Stanislaw Lem. Every 35 years, residents of this world must move to a new “Land”--each a rigid caste society based on hair color--and each person bears a Significant Name that foretells the manner of their deaths. New arrivals Gavein Throzz and Ra Mahleiné make sacrifices to stay together, defying authorities who try to separate Gavein, a robust “black,” from Ra Mahleiné, a lowly “white” destined to suffer in Davabel’s harsh climate.  

Soon, Gavein finds himself at the center of an epidemic of deaths--though he himself remains suspiciously unharmed--and discovers a book titled Nest of Worlds—populated by characters busy reading their own versions of Nest of Worlds, whose fates may lie in the hands of the reader. Nest of Worlds is a riveting and mind-bending tour through the nature of narrative, reality, love, and the darkest aspects of human nature.


About the author:


Marek S. Huberath is an award-winning Polish science fiction/fantasy writer. The author, a physicist at Jagiellonian University in Krakov, is an avid mountain climber.


About the translator:


Michael Kandel was a Fulbright student in Poland, 1966-67; taught Russian literature at George Washington University; received his PhD in Slavic at Indiana University; translated Polish writer Stanislaw Lem for Harcourt; wrote a few articles on Lem; worked as an editor at Harcourt, where he acquired authors Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Morrow, and others; has written science fiction, short stories, and a few novels (Bantam, St. Martin's); and is presently an editor at the Modern Language Association. He is the editor and translator of the anthology A Polish Book of Monsters.