The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1837861838
ISBN-13
9781837861835
Publisher
Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Imprint
Solaris
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 13th, 2025
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
262 grams
Dimensions
20.00 x 13.00 x 2.40 cms
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Antiwar activist Alefret, locked up in a secret prison and tortured, is offered a chance of freedom, ordered into one of the enemy’s flying cities to provoke his fellow pacifists into rising against their rulers. He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all?
The paperback release of 2024''s stunning meditation on war and violence by an award-winning author.
The Empires of Varkal and Medariz have always been at war.
Alefret, the founder of Varkals pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a visionary scientist. But now theyre offering him a chance of freedom.
Ordered to infiltrate one of Medarizs flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemys population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.
He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?
The Empires of Varkal and Medariz have always been at war.
Alefret, the founder of Varkals pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a visionary scientist. But now theyre offering him a chance of freedom.
Ordered to infiltrate one of Medarizs flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemys population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.
He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?
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