The Orchid Nursery. Louise Katz

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Название The Orchid Nursery
Автор произведения Louise Katz
Жанр Историческая фантастика
Серия
Издательство Историческая фантастика
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781922198211



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      the orchid nursery

      louise katz

      [Lacuna]

      2015

      “Terrifying, but so beautifully, dreamily written.” — Elizabeth Farrelly

      “The reader is hurtled pell-mell into a febrile world of strong and desperate characters, alien lore and changing loyalties. As Pearl and Mica avoid ‘attaining Perfection’ and the Orchid Nursery, they make their separate difficult journeys through a dystopian world that Katz presents with luminous, edgy and at times almost unbearably vivid descriptions. Mysterious and compelling, the narrative is etched with a grim humour in its dark evocation of a world both eerie and strange and yet also disturbingly familiar.” — Libby Hathorn

      “A powerful story, so visual and present it feels like a cross between a painting by Hieronymus Bosch and M C Escher … if they’d both read Riddley Walker and The Road. A fundamentalist ruling class and its deformed creed are the brutal gardeners in the nursery; meanwhile, one young woman escapes, knowing only what she cannot live with. Confronting in its truths, The Orchid Nursery’s richness of language also layers it in warmth and humour.”— Stephanie Smith

      “A superbly crafted vision of a toxic cultural wasteland. Three women: rebel, zealot, hag. Three journeys through a disintegrated future. Check current news reportage before claiming the horrors of The Orchid Nursery could never come to pass within our lifetime.” — Cat Sparks

      Contents

       Cover

       Title page

       Endorsements

       Contents

       Epigraph

      MICA 1.

      PEARL 2.

      MICA 3.

      PEARL 4.

      MICA 5.

      PEARL 6.

      MICA 7. 8. 9.

      PEARL 10.

      MICA 11.

      PEARL 12.

      MICA 13. 14.

      PEARL 15.

      MICA 16. 17.

      THE HAG 18. 19.

      PEARL 20.

      THE HAG 21. 22. 23.

      PEARL 24.

      MICA 25.

      THE HAG 26. 27. 28. 29.

      PEARL 30.

      THE HAG 31. 32. 33.

      MICA 34.

      THE HAG 35.

      PEARL 36.

      THE HAG 37. 38. 39.

      PEARL 40.

      THE HAG 41.

      MICA 42.

      PEARL 43.

      THE HAG