Lavie Tidhar is author of Osama, The Violent Century, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Unholy Land, and By Force Alone. His latest novels are The Hood and The Escapement. His awards include the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.
Marks a milestone in the literature of the fantastic."" – Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy ""Imagine Hard-Boiled Kabbalah... If you like your otherworld fun noir, have I got a book for you!"" – Kage Baker, author of In the Garden of Iden ""Wondrous, adventurous, and thought-provoking."" – Ellen Datlow, co-editor of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror ""Tidhar writes a sort of intensified supernatural action-surrealism that fair rattles along and is full of surprises—not only plot twists and thrills but a level of conceptual surprise, a reinvigoration of some of the more tired conventions of the fantasy-horror genre... not to be missed."" – Adam Roberts, author of The Thing Itself