They’ve each lost something important-a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life-and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.ĭid I, a brand-spankin'-new gynecologist, just read a book about a sexually transmitted city? Yeah, I guess so much for that whole 'don't bring your work home' thing. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four Oleg, a New York locksmith the beekeeper November Ludovico, a binder of rare books and a young Japanese woman named Sei. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse-a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.…īetween life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M.
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