Nghi Vo Libri

Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not the ones on screen. The studios want to own everything from her face to her name to the women she loves. Luli is willing to do whatever it takes even if that means becoming the monster herself

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.A demon. An angel. A city that burns at the heart of the world.The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.And then the angels come, and the city falls.Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever. Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to burn a world to ashes and build it anew.

"Gatsby the way it should have been written—dark, dazzling, fantastical."—R. F. Kuang "Luxurious, thrilling, and sexy."—Adrienne Celt Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo’s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.

Chih aus der Abtei der Singenden Hügel begleitet eine schöne junge Braut zu ihrer Hochzeit mit dem alternden Herrscher eines zwischen toten Imperien liegenden zerfallenden Anwesens. Die Hochzeitsgesellschaft wird mit aufwendigen Höflichkeiten und extravaganten Banketten empfangen, doch angesichts der verängstigten Diener und der kryptischen Warnungen des wahnsinnigen Sohns des Herrschers ist bald klar, dass irgendetwas die schattenerfüllten Hallen heimsucht. Bei der Erkundung leerer Räume und verlassener Innenhöfe werden Chih und die zukünftige Braut in das Geheimnis um das Schicksal der früheren Frauen von Lord Guo und die dunkle Geschichte von Do Cao selbst hineingezogen. Doch während sich die Hochzeitsnacht dem Ende nähert, muss Chih auf eigene Gefahr lernen, dass nicht alle Monster im Schatten lauern, sondern einige mitten unter uns sind. Der Singing Hills Cycle wurde für den Lambda Literary Award, den Locus Award und den Ignyte Award nominiert und hat den Crawford Award und den Hugo Award gewonnen.