The Four Profound Weaves The Four Profound Weaves

The Four Profound Weaves

A Birdverse Book

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Publisher Description

Otherwise Award Honor List

World Fantasy Award Finalist

Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte Awards Finalist


Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler—in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg’s award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe


The Four Profound Weaves is the anti-authoritarian, queer-mystical fairy tale we need right now.”

—Annalee Newitz, author of The Future of Another Timeline


“A beautiful, heartfelt story of change, family, identity, and courage.”

—Library Journal, starred review


The Surun’ nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.


Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.


As his past catches up, the nameless man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya—while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.


In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg’s beloved Birdverse, The Four Profound Weaves offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one's identity in a hostile world.


About the Birdverse: The Birdverse is the creation of fantasy author R. B. Lemberg. It is a complex, culturally diverse world, with a range of LGBTQIA characters and different family configurations. Named after its deity, Bird, Birdverse shorter works have been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, Tiptree award, and Rhysling awards. The Four Profound Weaves is the first full-length work set in the Birdverse.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2020
September 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Tachyon Publications
SELLER
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services
SIZE
2
MB

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