A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
3.64 · 14 ratings · Published: 12 Apr 2013
When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick’s life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. Just as he revels in Olondria’s Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl.
In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire’s two most powerful cults.
Even as the country simmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of freeing himself by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that most seductive of necromancies, reading.
- fantasy 4
- paranormal 3
- ghosts 3
- high fantasy 3
- protagonists of colour 2
- epic 2
- coming of age 2
- historical fiction 2
- magic 2
- action / adventure 1
- supernatural 1
- magical realism 1
- colonization 1
- contemporary 1
- literary fiction 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- audiobook 2
- book 1
- adult fiction 1