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Palimpsest

Catherynne M. Valente

Paperback | Pages: 367 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 4515 Users | 792 Reviews

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Original Title:	Palimpsest
ISBN:	0553385763 (ISBN13: 9780553385762)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/novels/palimpsest/
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2010), Gaylactic Spectrum Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror (2010)

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In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. 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.… Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. 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. 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 this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. 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.

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Title	:	Palimpsest
Author	:	Catherynne M. Valente
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 367 pages
Published	:	February 24th 2009 by Spectra (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Urban Fantasy. Magical Realism. Science Fiction. Steampunk

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Ratings: 3.66 From 4515 Users | 792 Reviews

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Did 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 touch a person... to sleep with a person... is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to

I laboured through this book, determined to finish it and not really enjoying much about it at all. The prose is beautiful but very heavy going and it goes on for 367 pages. It takes a lot of concentration and effort to keep on top of who all the characters are and I did not feel it was worth it in the end. This is the second book I have tried by this author and I guess I now have to admit her writing style and I do not go together.

Do you guys know that I almost missed out on this wonder? Somewhere, and I can't find where, I saw it labeled as erotica and I have a very strong aversion to that genre. But then this came up in a book group and I do really love Valente's work, so I decided to give it a try.This is a long way of wandering around the fact that I almost missed out not on a book, but an Absolutely Phenomenal Experience. I loved it. I loved every single second of this book. The prose is gorgeous, lush, and

"Sei pressed her cheek against the cold glass; strips of black mountains tore by under latern-blue clouds beyond her wide window. She knew a man was watching her - the way men on trains always watched her. The train car rocked gently from side to side, hushing its charges like a worried mother. She chewed on the ends of her dark blue hair. A stupid childhood habit, but Sei couldn't let it go. Her skin prickled as the man's eyes slid over her back."The poetic prose is so beautiful that

So 4 people have random sex with people they don't know. In doing so, each contracts an "STD", a piece of a map tattooed on their body of a city existing in some parallel universe. They each discover that through sex with other people with this same sexually contracted tattoo, they can visit (in their dreams) whatever parts of the city are tattooed on the other person's body.it's never explicitly stated, but apparently only unprotected sex will lead to dreams that will take them to the parallel

This is one of Valentes older works that I hadnt read yet. As a total fangirl, I had to remedy that, of course.We start off in a strange world where a factory produces vermin for the titular city of Palimsest. Soon, we meet the 4 protagonists, who are from our world and have arrived here after having had sex with a stranger. Because that is how you get here. No tornados or magic wardrobes, no enchanted doors. Just sex. Very intimate, satisfying and meaningful sex (for some), mind you.You know

A Book of Marvelous Things "I was so alone. I had only books and dreams and brushes then." The four protagonists, two male, two female, who live variously in California, New York, Rome and Kyoto, have their own separate obsessions - trains, keys, bees and books but dont yet know true love. They crave "the low vibratory tones of shared obsession... real lovers, the kind that make coffee for each other and read the same books". In this current world, they are taught two lessons: the source of