The writing is melodic and lyrical almost to the absurd, to the point that you almost want to shake it off you and return to the world of short phrases and transparent meanings. Every sentence is surreal, dripping with imagery, soaking with color, saturated with emotions. I have learned how to make coffee in all their ways, how to share food, how to comfort, how to dance in the native ways." Valente's trademark lush, ornamental, stylized, and vivid, almost paintbrush-stroke-like writing is amplified in this novel.
I have been so many times to countries like that. 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 them. 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.ĭid 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 this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four Oleg, a New York locksmith the beekeeper November Ludovico, a binder of rare books and a young Japanese woman named Sei. 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 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. 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.…īetween life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M.
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