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Palimpsest

Catherynne M. Valente

Cover of Palimpsest

Published 2009 by Bantam Spectra · 367 pages

Hugo Nominee 2010
Fantasy

Synopsis

Four strangers discover that after sleeping with someone who bears a certain mark, they wake with a map of a mysterious city tattooed on their skin — Palimpsest, a place they can visit only in dreams. Obsessed with returning, they must find each other in the waking world as the city’s seductive pull grows stronger.

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US

ISBN

9780553385762

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