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City of saints and madmen

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  • "Book of Ambergris"@en
  • "City of saints"@en
  • "City of saints & madmen"@en

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  • "La chronique des aventures, excentricités et faiblesses des citoyens d'Ambregris, une cité fantastique, qui ressemble fortement à notre monde. On y croise des saints vivants, des écrivains fous, de médiocres artistes transformés en génies, des calmars géants intelligents ... Contient quatre novellas, une monographie sur les calmars, une nouvelle cryptée ..."
  • "In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. This is an invitation to a place unlike any you've ever visited - an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading - and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he's made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago... By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "eyewitness" reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can lose - and find - yourself again. --publisher's description."
  • "In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you've ever visited, an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians."
  • "In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. This is an invitation to a place unlike any you've ever visited - an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading - and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he's made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago ... By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "eyewitness" reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can lose - and find - yourself again. --publisher's description."

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  • "Fantasy fiction, American"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Powieść fantastyczna amerykańska"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Nowele fantastyczne amerykańskie"@pl

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  • "La cité des saints et des fous"
  • "Miasto szaleńców i świętych"@pl
  • "Stadt der Heiligen und Verrückten"
  • "City of saints and madmen"
  • "City of saints and madmen"@en

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