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Lädt ... Dreams of the Compass Rosevon Vera Nazarian
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Member Giveaways geschrieben. This book reminded me of a book of fables from somewhere far away. The characters come and go throughout the stories. There is no specific time order which may add a little confusion for some reader who are used to a linear format. I was not really a fan of this book but I could easily see how others may be. ( )A gorgeous, lush, exotic cycle of 14 short stories, beginning and ending with the city of Aramantea: In "Amarantea" Grandmother tells her grandchildren about this ruined city and in "The Story of Time" we see what exactly happened to it and to the Compass Rose. The other stories do not follow chronologically in a straight line, but we do meet recurring characters. We read of a vast desert; an unsinkable ship and her woman captain, Lero; death and the thief who stole her "shimmering" scythe; the Lord of Illusion, trapped in the body of a translucent horse; a girl who becomes a spring of water, a never-empty cup, a city of gold. In "The City of No-Sleep" only an assassination of its ruler will stop the city from changing each day. This happens each night while the mad king sleeps, so the inhabitants try to keep awake too. There are villains but some figures arouse our sympathy: Nadir, the black man, Lirheas, the somber prince, Yaro, the servant girl, and "the queen with no eyes", builder of the Compass Rose. All the stories are oneiric and surreal. They have an Oriental flavor. I feel this collection is destined to be a fantasy classic someday. Most highly recommended. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Member Giveaways geschrieben. This review was written for LibraryThing Members giveaway.Lush, lyrical (at the beginning almost overly so, and partly the reason why I waited so long to pick the book, waiting for the right mood), sometime cruel interlinked tales set in a world reminiscent of Tanith Lee's Flat Earth, or some a-historical Middle East of the Thousand and One Nights. There are several recurring characters, whose successive stories progressively define the world of the Compass Rose and the events that shaped the most central one, the mortal then goddess Ris, whose ascension and interactions with a few mortals closest to her frame those fascinating fragments. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Member Giveaways geschrieben. This book took me a long time to get through. But in the hiatuses of reading it, the stories still resonated with me and were very memorable. As I advanced through the book and the intertwined character threads became apparent, I became much more immersed. The author crafts vivid imagery and a rich, well-developed world with equally well-developed characters. Her writing is beautiful and mesmerizing. The intersection of the characters’ stories throughout the different episodes are well done and made for an enjoyable and engaging read. A copy of the eBook was supplied by the author through a LibraryThing member giveaway. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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This is the 10th Anniversary Edition of the critically acclaimed mythic fantasy classic "collage novel" DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE by two-time Nebula Award Nominee Vera Nazarian. The world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind. The Compass Rose universe -- an ancient milieu where places have no names, cities spring forth like bouquets in the desert, gods and dreams walk the scorching sands in the South, ice floats like mirror shards upon the Northern sea, islands that do not exist are found in the East, death chases a thief on the rooftops of a Western city, immortal love spans time, and directions are intertwined into one road we all travel.... You come to this place when you wonder, and sometimes, only when you dream. What is the nature of evil? When a young warrior of a dark race finds himself bound in servitude to a beautiful cruel princess, his loyalty becomes entwined with something more horrifying and mysterious than endless night falling over the ancient desert. When a courageous young servant reveals her hidden wisdom to the madman conqueror of the world, her fate is joined to a nightmare suspended beyond death and outside the universe. Two souls from different times -- their destinies connected through hundreds of other lives and generations, through soft whispers of the wind, through ancient truths that lie buried in an island between worlds. Both souls enslaved through dream and desire in an endless conflict between truth and illusion. They can only be set free by the wonder of the Compass Rose. "A clever concoction of vignettes and short stories knitted into a morality tale about the temptation of illusion and the price of truth... an exotic setting reminiscent of Tanith Lee's Flat Earth series.... The author's sumptuous language will resonate with Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith fans... Nazarian's vital themes and engaging characters are sure to entertain."
-Publishers Weekly "The colorful strong writing style that Vera has worked on for years has come to full fruition."
-Marion Zimmer Bradley "I love this book. Dreams of the Compass Rose is a story-cycle in which we keep coming back to the same characters, except from different viewpoints and different times in their lives. It's set in a land of desert empires that never was, though it could easily be our world-far in the future, or deep in the past. Some of the stories are brutal, some are like dreams. All of them are engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history. It reminded me of those wonderful, dream-laden story-cycles that Clark Ashton Smith and Lord Dunsany were writing around the turn of the last century. Dreams of the Compass Rose has a similar stately lyricism, a compelling and visionary voice that speaks to the heart of the reader."
-Charles de Lint "Nazarian's story cycle treads the borderline between the episodic novel and the short-story collection... her imagery is rich, vivid, and memorable, not to mention being remarkable because she realizes it not in her native language, Russian, but in English.... this is a singularly appealing book by a new voice in fantasy."
-ALA Booklist "An intricate multi-level story... a kind of Aesop's Fables... spoken with a voice from the Far East, hypnotic as the desert sands."
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