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Alluring, intense, and gorgeously rendered, Ice Song is a remarkable debut by a fiercely original new writer.
Del Rey
May 2009
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Featuring: Sorykah Minuit
384 pages
ISBN: 0345508815
EAN: 9780345508812
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There are secrets beneath her skin. Sorykah Minuit is a scholar, an engineer, and the sole woman
aboard an ice-drilling submarine in the frozen land of the
Sigue. What no one knows is that she is also a Trader: one
who can switch genders suddenly, a rare corporeal deviance
universally met with fascination and superstition and all
too often punished by harassment or death. Sorykah’s infant twins, Leander and Ayeda, have inherited
their mother’s Trader genes. When a wealthy, reclusive
madman known as the Collector abducts the babies to use in
his dreadful experiments, Sorykah and her male alter-ego,
Soryk, must cross icy wastes and a primeval forest to get
them back. Complicating the dangerous journey is the fact
that Sorykah and Soryk do not share memories: Each
disorienting transformation is like awakening with a jolt
from a deep and dreamless sleep. The world through which the alternating lives of Sorykah and
Soryk travel is both familiar and surreal. Environmental
degradation and genetic mutation run amok; humans have been
distorted into animals and animal bodies cloak a wild
humanity. But it is also a world of unexpected beauty and
wonder, where kindness and love endure amid the ruins.
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