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City of Saints and Madmen by Vandermeer, Jeff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, Richard Morgan and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This collection of four linked novellas is the perfect introduction to VanderMeer's vividly imagined worlds. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervour and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading - and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he's made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago. Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis - a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.

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Author

Vandermeer, Jeff

Publisher

Spectra/Bantam Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307417923

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13