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'Completely without parallel' - Michael Moorcock, author of The Dancers at the End of Time'A magisterial wonder' - Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World'An extraordinary tour de force' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time'Every page feels alive' - Xiaolu Guo, author of Call Me IshmaelleFrom the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making - a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.
Maur's life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise .