I read Soldiers of Paradise for the first time 20 years ago. I just read it again and am happy to say it still holds all the same beauty and mystery as it did for me as a teenager. This novel is so dense despite its slim size, it can't be read in a sitting. A few pages reveal a world of unlimited...
An absolutely extraordinary novel, possessing a wondrous imaginative scope and a uncompromising, often unnerving strangeness that makes it very difficult to describe. It's also difficult to recommend without fair warning: it is unrelentingly weird, dense, difficult, and in many ways its true mean...
The sequel to Park's stunning fantasy debut, A Princess of Roumania.Teenager Miranda Popescu is at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurers in an alternate fantasy world where "Roumania" is a leading European power. Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world. An ...
In the third and final book of the Starbridge Chronicles, THE CULT OF LOVING KINDNESS, more than two generations have passed since the events of SUGAR RAIN, and barren tundra has given way to fecund, steamy jungle at the height of summer. Deep in the forest, a twin boy and girl grow up among a st...
A shutter had worked loose from one of the windows at the base of the tower and was beating itself to pieces in the March wind. Five years and a few months later, when Miranda stood looking out, no trace of it remained. Now in her upstairs room she put down her bottle of s...
THEN Maybe the first part of the story would be called The Bracelet, or else Bracelets would turn out to be the better name. Paulina suspected there were at least two, one an imagined version of the other, but she couldn’t tell which was which. How could she know? She herself imagined something m...