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The Carnival Of Ash

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Pub Date 15 Mar 2022 | Archive Date 7 Mar 2022

Historical Fiction | Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Solaris Lead title for Spring 2022.

A lush, literary alternate history about a city of poets and librarians. A city that never was.

Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries, its heart beating to the stamp and thrum of the printing presses in the Printing Quarter.

Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city’s poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil, the looming prospect of war with their rival Venice ever-present. A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether…
Solaris Lead title for Spring 2022.

A lush, literary alternate history about a city of poets and librarians. A city that never was.

Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline...
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Advance Praise

‘Ingenious and intricate’

Katherine Addison


‘A gorgeous, immersive triumph of Renaissance-flavored worldbuilding’

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

‘Ingenious and intricate’

Katherine Addison


‘A gorgeous, immersive triumph of Renaissance-flavored worldbuilding’

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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Solaris Lead title for Spring 2022.

Solaris Lead title for Spring 2022.

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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781786185006
PRICE US$24.99 (USD)
PAGES 528

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