Nest of Worlds
by Marek S. Huberath
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Pub Date Jan 13 2014 | Archive Date Sep 30 2014
Description
Polish science fiction master Marek S. Huberath’s riveting and mind-bending Nest of Worlds—his first novel to appear in English—is a metafictional adventure through a dystopian world that owes as much to Borges, Saramago, and even Thomas More as it does to Stanislaw Lem. In this world, every 35 years residents must move to a new “Land”—each a rigid caste society based on hair color—and each person bears a secret ""Significant Name"" that foretells the manner of their deaths.
It’s rare for new arrivals in the Land of Davabel to come already married—yet Gavein Throzz and Ra Mahleiné each make sacrifices to stay together: Ra Mahleiné takes a four-year-long ocean voyage to arrive at the same time as Gavein, where Gavein, a high-ranking “black,” defies the authorities who pressure him to abandon his wife, a lowly “white” destined to suffer in Davabel’s harsh climate.
As they navigate this difficult terrain, Gavein and Ra Mahleiné find themselves amidst a strange epidemic of deaths linked only by their connection to Gavein himself. Struggling to solve the mystery, keep his ailing wife alive, and survive his new notoriety as the apparent incarnation of Death, Gavein discovers a book titled Nest of Worlds—populated by characters busy reading their own versions of Nest of Worlds, whose fates may lie in the hands of the reader.
Marek S. Huberath’s Nest of Worlds is a stirring meditation on the nature of narrative, reality, love, and the darkest aspects of human nature.
REVIEWS:
A World Literature Today Editor's Pick
""The various twists and turns of Nest of Worlds makes it the closest approximation we can find, in our world, to the perpetually metamorphosing work of art Gavein holds in his hands. And so I am almost inclined to call Nest of Worlds, in spite of its occasional shortcomings and because of its fully realized ambitions, a masterwork not of science fiction, but of Polish fiction. It is a book where characters live and die, and—more importantly—where we struggle with the fact that they do.""
—3:AM Magazine
Marek S. Huberath has been a major figure in Polish science fiction for the last 25 years. Confronting moral and philosophical issues rather than future technical possibilities, he is heir to the titans of Soviet-era Eastern European literary science fiction like Stanislaw Lem. A three-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award (the Polish equivalent of the Hugo), Huberath is also a professor of biophysics and biological physics at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and an avid mountain climber, who has said that he feels most comfortable with the air under his feet. His novels include Nest of Worlds, Cities under the Rock, Wydawnictwo Literackie, and Western Portal of the Cathedral in Lugdunum.
Michael Kandel is perhaps best known for his translation of major works of Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem—including Fiasco, His Master's Voice, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and The Futurological Congress. He also worked as an editor at Harcourt, where he acquired authors Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Morrow, and others. Kandel was a Fulbright student in Poland, 1966-67; received his PhD in Slavic at Indiana University; taught Russian literature at George Washington University; wrote a few articles on Lem; and has written science fiction, short stories, and a few novels (published by Bantam, St. Martin's); and is presently an editor at the Modern Language Association. Kandel has recently translated works by Jacek Dukaj and Andrzej Sapkoswki, and he is the editor and translator of the anthology A Polish Book of Monsters.
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780989983273 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
