The Four Profound Weaves

A Birdverse Book

De: R.B. Lemberg

Narrado por: Paul Boehmer

Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler - in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg's award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe

The Surun' nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.

Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.

As his past catches up, the nameless man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya - while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.

In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg's beloved Birdverse, The Four Profound Weaves offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one's identity in a hostile world.

©2020 R.B. Lemberg (P)2020 Tantor

atmospheric in the best sense

Very well worth it. The influence from Le Guin is clear, but everything is a bit more symbolic, dreamlike, and magical. My teenage self might have choked on all the atmosphere, but now I dig it. The book is Romantic in the sense of being like Byron, but entirely eschews romance in the sense of Avon, focusing on the other things that make us human. The world system is mostly soft, with just enough systematization to ground the reader and reify the world. Maybe a smidge orientalist, but respectful enough that I think Edward Said would give it a pass.