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tregina's review
5.0
The very premise of this volume enchanted me: a series of descriptions of cities that never were. These are not fantasy worlds but fantasy cities in our world, some a plausible product of the cultural and physical shaping of the world we know, some more firmly rooted in fiction and mythology. It sounds like something I would want to create myself, the kind of disjointed, concrete creativity that I love. This is a translation of a translation (from the original Romanian through Spanish), and only incorporates about two thirds of the original book, but the translation nonethless captures something special—there is something completely magical and haunting about the prose, and about these cities. It would be impossible to pick a favourite, but I found Sah-Harah, Dava and Selenia to be particularly affecting. Each of the segments is powerful in its own way.
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