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Black Wine

by Candas Jane Dorsey

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This book really blew my mind. Dorsey is one of those authors that should be appreciated more - I had no idea. She uses beautiful and truly moving language. Her story is complex and just carries you along like any good story should. I felt she really captured the emotional ebb and flow of real women who struggle through life, in the context of a thought-provoking world (our own or another?) Her treatment of gender and sexuality is nuanced and really carries the story through its complicated twists and turns. One of my new favorite authors! (

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The Carrier of Spirits (Diety)

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The Fjord of Tears

The Remarkable Mountains

Trader Town

The Black Ship

The Dark Isles

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Awards and honors

James Tiptree, Jr. Award (1997)

William J. Crawford Memorial Award (1997)

Prix Aurora Award (Best English Long Form, 1998)

The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (1997)

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Dedication

To all those who taught me how to listen to the children -- and when to speak for the voiceless

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There is a scarred, twisted old madwoman in a cage in the courtyard.

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0312861818, Hardcover)

Winner of the 1997 William J. Crawford Memorial Award (for a first fantasy novel), this utopian, archetypal story follows five generations of women--from the monumental, sadistic despot to her great-great-granddaughter working in a warehouse--through their travels away from and toward one another. Loves and deaths are passed through the generations, collected on their successive journeys, each restless character setting others in motion as she seeks freedom and kinship. Candas Jane Dorsey's concise language is powerful, telling an intense story without emotional plateaus, only peaks and valleys, joy and grief. This is an involving, unsettling book. It is easily one of the best and most ambitious novels of 1996 and one that will provoke thought and conversation.

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