Название: The City of Woven Streets
Автор: Emmi Itaranta
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Научная фантастика
isbn: 9780007536085
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2016
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Table of Contents
I still dream of the island.
I sometimes approach it across water, but more often through air, like a bird, with a great wind under my wings. The shores rise rain-coloured on the horizon of sleep, and in their quiet circle the buildings: the houses grown along the canals, the workshops of inkmasters, the low-ceilinged taverns. The House of Words looks inward behind its high walls. Threads knotted into mazes run in all directions from the House of Webs, and air gondolas СКАЧАТЬ