By Karen Engelmann
ISBN-10: 0061995347
ISBN-13: 9780061995347
lifestyles is on the subject of excellent for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat within the place of work of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. he's a real guy of the Town—a drinker, card participant, and contented bachelor—until one night whilst Mrs. Sofia Sparrow, a fortune-teller and owner of an unique gaming parlor, stocks with him a imaginative and prescient she has had: a golden course that would lead him to like and connection. She lays an 8vo for him, a range of 8 playing cards that augur the 8 people who will help him notice this vision—if he can locate them.
Emil starts off his seek, intrigued through the puzzle of his 8vo and the nice fortune Mrs. Sparrow's imaginative and prescient portends. but if Mrs. Sparrow wins a mysterious folding fan in a card video game, the Octavo's deeper powers are printed. For Emil it truly is now not only a online game of the center; accumulating his 8 is now an important to pulling his state again from the crumbling precipice of uprising and chaos. Set opposed to the luminous backdrop of overdue eighteenth-century Stockholm, because the winds of revolution rage throughout the nice capitals of Europe, The Stockholm Octavo brings jointly a suite of characters, either fictional and historic, whose lives tangle in political conspiracy, love, and magic in a wide ranging debut that may depart you spellbound.
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Howls Iggy Pop, and the murderous guitar of the Stooges’ TV Eye kicks in, as Phreedom Messenger opens up the throttle on the bike and roars out of her pit stop on the way to hell. w hor e of b a by l on , qu e e n of h e av e n And Inanna continued on her way toward the underworld. She journeyed from ancient Sumer up the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, through the whole of Babylon and into Hittite Haran. She traveled into Canaan with the Habiru who called her Ishtar. She went with them into Egypt and they called her Ashtaroth when she returned, leaving behind only a memory, the myth of Isis.
Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” And she’s close. She can feel reality stretch thin around her, like the world itself is only a skin, translucent, tenuous, the Vellum rippling underneath what’s real, underneath, beyond, behind. She’s followed the path her brother’s ripped through time, pitched back and forward in his wake, cresting the waves and working her way inward to the source, the impact zone, where he broke through, like a comet smashing into the ocean.
And the beaded curtain rattles as she pushes through it into the dark room where the woman in the veil looks up and pauses in her work, a buzzing tattooist’s needle in her hand. And there’s another hand, grabbing at her arm, the assistant’s. And when she entered the seventh gate, from her body the royal robe was removed. ” Inanna asked. “Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” asks Phreedom. “I said, you can’t go in. ” “She’ll see me,” Phreedom says. NAKED AND BOWED LOW Naked and bowed low, Inanna entered the throne room of Eresh of the Greater Earth, who arose.
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