<p>Signed limited edition of 500 with introduction by the author. This is the original novel from which the World Fantasy Award-winning novella 'The Summer Isles' was excerpted. The novel is approximately two-thirds greater in length. This is the first time it has been available in the English-speaking world. Bound in ecologically friendly materials; printed on acid-free paper. This edition took top honors for book design at the 2005 Chicago Book &amp; Media Show.</p>

The Summer Isles

Literature & Fiction

Ian R. MacLeod

Literary

Aio Publishing Company

Impossible Encounters

A nuanced mix of the ordinary with the surreal, the mundane with the sublime, this mosaic novel quietly twists trusted concepts. With simple yet fine prose, this story unfolds as a series of otherworldly meetings. After death, a man encounters not a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel, but a hall of portraits and, locked in a room, the most extraordinary artwork of all. Other colorful characters include a young man who finds himself atop a mountain, a bookseller that services the most ordinary of requests from a highly unusual patron, a banker who meets his maker on a train, a priest who receives absolution from the devil, and a dying author who finds hope in the most unlikely of conversations. Long before the last page, readers may find the world has been turned inside out.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

ZIVKOVIC, Zoran

Fantasy

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