Tonguecat

Prometheus, the boy who hides a flame in his mouth, is arrested in the city and murdered in a police basement. Winter then settles on the land for years; the king vanishes and rebellion follows. His death touches many lives: Ulrike, whose hair never stays the same and whose lips have touched both boy and monarch; a palace servant quietly learning to plant bombs; centaurs that are part youth, part motorcycle; a mother living inside a wall. The book's tales gather in a bordello whose girls are made of language.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

341 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

1999 by Prometheus

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9789053337929 (original)

9780374278434 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

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