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by Catherynne M. Valente (Author)
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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Spectra Books (31 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553384031
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553384031
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,945 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful weave of fairy tale fantasy, 8 Dec 2006
By A. D. MacFarlane (England, UK) - See all my reviews
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"Now this child had a strange and wonderful birthmark, in that her eyelids and the flesh around her eyes was stained a deep indigo-black, like china pots filled with ink."

Catherynne M Valente's latest novel begins in the vast garden of a Sultan's palace and with a girl who has been banished from the palace into the garden because of a peculiar marking: her eyelids and the skin around her eyes are stained black. When a plucky boy approaches her, she tells him that the markings are stories written in tiny handwriting; and at his request she begins to tell him the first story, from the crease of her left eyelid. These stories are the focus of the book, although there is an important subplot of the boy getting in trouble for his growing association with the girl.

The stories she tells have a fairytale, mythical quality about them; there are stories within stories within stories, weaving in and out of each other; and it is all told in Valente's flowing, beautiful prose. She takes some basic archetypes - the prince, the maiden and the witch, for instance - and turns them on their head in an oft-peculiar way, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, with ideas drawn from a wide spread of cultures and a fair few from the imagination-rich world inside her own head.

This is a dazzling, original, interesting book, and I recommend it to everyone who wants a taste of something fresh and fantastic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, 16 Jan 2008
By rubbah "rubbah" (Hertfordshire) - See all my reviews
This book was good it is hard to describe how good it was. The many stories the girl with the tatooed eyes tells weave together expertly and sometimes so subtly you don't realise initially how they connect.It is, as the blurb describes it, a new arabian nights.
I really enjoyed this book and I'm already planning to order the sequel.
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