The City in Glass
By Nghi VoPublisher Description
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.
An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick
A demon. An angel. A city.
The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.
And then the angels come, and the city falls.
Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.
Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.
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“The City in Glass by Nghi Vo is pure lyrical prose. This is my first read by Vo, so it was a little hard for me to understand and get into. I’m still not sure what this story is about or what it represents, but the writing is so gorgeous I kept reading this strange little novella.
The story spans over 300 years and tells of the trials and tribulations of city, its people, the Demon whom has poured her heart and soul into protecting it, and the earth-bound Angel that destroyed it.
I wouldn’t call this a romance, it’s more of a character study of two immortals who slowly become closer over a long span of time and begin to develop an understanding relationship with each other and the city.
There is no plot, it’s slow paced and heavy on world building especially for such a short book. It’s still beautiful in its own unique way and I do recommend reading it for yourselves.
Thank you to Tordotcom and NetGalley for an advanced copy.”Maddy’s Book Cart
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