City of Saints and Madmen av Jeff VanderMeer

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<p><b>From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of <i>Borne</i> and <i>Annihilation</i>, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic <i>City of Saints and Madmen</i>. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you¿ve ever visited¿an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.</b><br><br>City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor 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 that he¿s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he¿s really from a place called Chicago . . .<br><br>By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled