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Black Wine

(1996)
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Awards
1998 Aurora Award for Best Novel
1998 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
1997 Otherwise Award

Why is there an old woman, in a hanging cage for punishment, keeping a journal written in blood? Candas Jane Dorsey has written an ambitious, feminist novel about women coming to terms with their identity in a barbarous fantasy world. Dorsey's women travel across the world, from the slave dens to the merchant cities, across seas by ship and by dirigible, to isolated mountain villages and back again. "But there remains provocative ambiguity as the story progresses. There is a woman exiled from her family, a mother who has abandoned her daughter, an old woman in a cage, a young women slave on a lord's estate who does not remember her past. How many of them are the same woman?


Genre: Fantasy

Praise for this book

"As brilliant as William Gibson,as complex as Gene Wolfe..." - Ursula K Le Guin


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