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Salt of the Air
| Author: | Vera Nazarian |
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Prime Books, 2006 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
You are familiar with the salt of the earth. But did you know there is an even finer, more delicate essence?
Take wisdom and imagination, responsibility and beauty, and mix them together in arcane proportions to form a rich and peculiar brine. The resulting water of life is an emotional muddy liquid, filled with existential sediment swirling in the light of secret reality and reflecting prismatic colors of hope and wonder. If allowed to evaporate -- escape, flee, ascend into the ether and join the music of the spheres -- what remains is the quintessence; a precious concentrate that is elusive and volatile, neither fully solid nor so illusory as to be devoid of pithy substance. It is the Salt of the Air.
In this debut collection from the critically acclaimed author of Dreams of the Compass Rose and Lords of Rainbow, the nineteen stories are distillations of myth and philosophy, eroticism and ascetic purity. Dipping into an ancient multi-ethnic well, they are the stuff of fantasy--of maidens and deities and senior retirees, of emperors and artists and con artists, of warriors and librarians, of beings without a name and things very fey indeed....
Don't be afraid of ingesting ethereal salt.
Open your mind and inhale.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (2006) - essay by Gene Wolfe
- Rossia Moya - (1999) - shortstory
- Beauty and His Beast - (1991) - shortstory
- The Young Woman in a House of Old - (2003) - novelette
- Absolute Receptiveness, the Princess, and the Pea - (2000) - shortfiction
- Bonds of Light - (1993) - shortstory
- The Starry King - (1990) - shortstory
- The Stone Face, the Giant, and the Paradox - (1995) - novelette
- A Thing of Love - (1990) - shortstory
- The Balance - (1990) - shortstory
- Demonkiller - (2006) - shortstory
- The Slaying of Winter - (2004) - novelette
- Sun, in Its Copper Season - (2005) - shortstory
- Lady of the Castle - (2000) - shortfiction
- Wound on the Moon - (1985) - novelette
- Revulsion and the Beast - (2005) - shortstory
- I Want to Paint the Sky - (2000) - shortfiction
- Lore of Rainbow - (2006) - shortfiction
- Swans - (2001) - shortstory
- The Story of Love - (2006) - shortstory
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