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Cargando... In Great Waters (2009)por Kit Whitfield
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. OK story of landsmen and mer-people and a half-breed who could connect them both. It kept me reading. ( ) Whistle knows he's not like everyone else. His lungs give out after only a half hour underwater, and his tail is strangely divided. Finally, his mother gives up on him and casts him out onto the land, where a scholar takes him in and tries to civilize him. This could be an interesting tale (heh) of a fish out of water (heh) with a critique of colonialism and humanism running beneath it. But then we get the explanation of *why* Henry/Whistle is being raised, and to me, the explanation turns this book into something even greater. [b:In Great Waters|6309140|In Great Waters|Kit Whitfield|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266629732s/6309140.jpg|6494266] is a cross between British history, and [b:The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing|169762|The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)|M.T. Anderson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172369018s/169762.jpg|577024], but with mermaids. It sounds like crack, but Whitfield is an incredible writer. As in [b:Benighted|362956|Benighted|Kit Whitfield|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174108230s/362956.jpg|353041], fantastical creatures are used to people and complicate a world that is recognizable but a bit off. Issues of power and control, of who gets to make decisions, of what world-view is acknowledged, how history is created, of how norms are created/overturned/reaffirmed--all of it roils through her books. Physicality has a power here that few authors acknowledge, from the calloused hands of lycanthropes in [b:Benighted|362956|Benighted|Kit Whitfield|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174108230s/362956.jpg|353041] to the curved backs and crutches of royalty here. These are the books I would give to anyone who doubts that fantasy can still have new things to say. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed–and then, jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples. Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any “bastard” child must be destroyed. This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true–where the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land. This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself a pawn in a game he does not understand. Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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