Description
| Product ID: | 9781617755880 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | An Unkindness of Ghosts |
| Authors: | Author: Rivers Solomon |
| Page Count: | 340 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction: space opera, Space opera |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A truly phenomenal, breathtaking debut science-fiction novel of the highest order. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship''s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda''s sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother''s suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother''s footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she''s willing to fight for it. |
| Imprint Name: | Akashic Books,U.S. |
| Publisher Name: | Akashic Books,U.S. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-11-09 |