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What if you came from a country with a purely oral tradition, and then you had to learn the written language of another culture? That’s the magical question at the heart of a brilliant new novel, ...

Samatar weaves superstition, religion, politics, and a strong love of reading into a biography of Jissavet, a simple illiterate girl who has died young. The frame story depicts Jevick of Tyom’s first ...

In Sofia Samatar's World Fantasy Award-winning debut novel A Stranger in Olondria, she introduced an empire redolent with magic and rife with turmoil. Olondria is one of the richest new fantasy ...

Sofia Samatar has called her second novel, “The Winged Histories,” her “farewell to epic fantasy,” though devotees of her 2013 debut “A Stranger in Olondria” might justly cry that she has only barely ...

Samatar's lush sequel to A Stranger in Olondria is a story of revolution, religion, and electrifying love in four distinct voices. Tavis is close kin to the current Telkan, the ruler of the fantasy ...