īy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading-and finds himself enchanted. And yet the books themselves, as celebrated and influential as they have become, have a publishing history as arcane and. It is a marvelous, unparalleled feat of imagination. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. The Ambergris trilogy is made up of three novels, each of which has become a cult classic in its own right: City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited-an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.Ĭity of elegance and squalor. From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen.
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