The Year of Our War: 1 (Fourlands) - Tapa blanda

"Extraordinary.stunning.compelling.seriously new. . Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention." -- Locus

"Vibrant, colourful, tirelessly inventive and effortlessly weird, Stephanie Swainston has thrown the map away."--M. John Harrison

"Swainston's first novel brings a bold new vision to the fantasy genre, combining classic fantasy elements with imaginative new images."--Library Journal

"Extraordinary...stunning...compelling...seriously new. ... Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention."--Locus

Thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered: a blistering debut, and honest-to-God unputdownable. --China Mi?ville, author of Perdido Street Station"

Swainston s first novel brings a bold new vision to the fantasy genre, combining classic fantasy elements with imaginative new images. --Library Journal"

Vibrant, colourful, tirelessly inventive and effortlessly weird, Stephanie Swainston has thrown the map away. --M. John Harrison"

Extraordinary stunning compelling seriously new. Swainst has considerably vivid powers of invention. --Locus"

"Thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered: a blistering debut, and honest-to-God unputdownable."--China Mieville, author of Perdido Street Station

In a strange, surreal world populated by humans governed by fifty human immortals, Jant, the Messenger, the only one of the immortals who can fly, holds the key to stopping hordes of giant insects that have been plaguing the land for centuries, but only if he can control a secret addiction and overcome the machinations and rivalries of his fellow immortals. A first novel. Original. 20,000 first printing.