Hav (Hav #1-2)
Jan Morris
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
3.88
· 8 ratings · 321 pages · Published: 28 Mar 2006
When Morris published Last Letters from Hav in 1985, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Here it is joined by Hav of the Myrmidons, a sequel that brings the story up-to-date. Twenty-first-century Hav is nearly unrecognizable. Sanitized and monetized, it is ruled by a group of fanatics who have rewritten its history to reflect their own blinkered view of the past.
Morris’s only novel is dazzlingly sui-generis, part erudite travel memoir, part speculative fiction, part cautionary political tale. It transports the reader to an extraordinary place that never was, but could well be.
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3.88 · 8 ratings
lgbtq · retellings · historical · urban · young-adult · alternate-history · 21st-century · sword-sorcery · 20th-century · travel · book · satire · myths · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · fantasy · female-author · action-adventure · comedy · humor
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