Aliette de Bodard is a multi-award-winning author. She is a half-French, half-Vietnamese computer and history geek who lives in Paris and has a special interest in non-Western civilisations, particularly Ancient Vietnam, Ancient China and Ancient Mesoamerica.
The devastated Paris of Aliette de Bodard's novel is especially haunting...A series of mysterious deaths turns the novel into a surprising but compelling murder mystery, which plays out according to the supernatural terms de Bodard has laid out so evocatively. --<i>The Chicago Tribune</i> <b><i> </i></b> <i>The House of Shattered Wings</i> exists in a rich, evocative Paris that is thick with magical history. Pathos and beauty intertwine in a novel filled with longing. --Mary Robinette Kowal, Multiple-Hugo award winning author of The Glamourist Histories A Gothic masterpiece of supernatural intrigues, loves and betrayals in a ruined and decadent future Paris--wildly imaginative and completely convincing, this novel will haunt you long after you've put it down. --Tim Powers, author of <i>The Anubis Gates</i> <i> </i> Lyrical, sophisticated, lush, suspenseful...brings to life an exciting world of deep magic and complex, layered characters. --Ken Liu, author of <i>The Grace of Kings</i> <i> </i> Fantastic! De Bodard's tale of a post-everything Paris, struggling toward an uncertain future beneath the burden of its imperial sins, burns with vengeful magic and subtle, shining prose. --Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence De Bodard aptly mixes moral conflicts and the desperate need to survive in a fantastical spy thriller that reads like a hybrid of le Carre and Milton, all tinged with the melancholy of golden ages lost. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p>