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The city in glass / Nghi Vo.

Vo, Nghi, (author.).

Summary:

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250348272 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1250348277 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 215 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
Subject: Demonology > Fiction.
Angels > Fiction.
Imaginary wars and battles > Fiction.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.
Romance fiction.

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  • 0 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Erlanger Branch VO N (Text) 33126026128771 New Adult Fiction Checked out 11/11/2024
Independence Branch VO N (Text) 33126026128763 New Adult Fiction Checked out 11/09/2024

  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2024 August

    Vitrine is a demon—immortal, powerful, capricious, and malicious. She's also protective and possessive, and Azril is her city, a place she has nurtured and protected. It's a city she has loved and watched grow from a tiny collection of huts to a free and beautiful place so mighty that the angels come to destroy it, which should have been the end. Instead, it's a beginning, as Vitrine treads a hard road through the stages of grief, the beginning of her tempestuous relationship with one cursed and broken angel, and the start of a new city, rising on the ashes of the old, which they build together—one brick, one refugee, one monument at a time. VERDICT Vo's (The Brides of High Hill) latest takes the lyrical, mystical, otherworldly, and frequently contentious relationship between the demon and the angel and creates the kind of push-pull duality of This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, then adds a splash of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens to tell a romantic story about two beings on opposite sides of an eternal conflict who find common ground but never peace.—Marlene Harris

    Copyright 2024 Library Journal.

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