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Jeannette Ng

    L'écriture de Jeannette Ng explore des thèmes entrelacés d'histoire et de théologie, faisant souvent référence à la pensée médiévale et missionnaire. Son style distinctif se caractérise par un profond intérêt pour le passé, qu'elle transforme en récits captivants. Elle met à profit ses vastes connaissances issues d'études médiévales et de la Renaissance pour explorer des idées complexes et des motivations humaines. Le travail de Ng offre aux lecteurs une perspective nouvelle sur des thèmes universels.

    Under the Pendulum Sun
    • Under the Pendulum Sun

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Winner of the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Jeannette Ng brings a stunningly different Victorian fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Victorian missionaries travel into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the Fae, in a stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Catherine Helstone’s brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone and isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane. At last there comes news: her beloved brother is riding to be reunited with her soon but the Queen of the Fae and her insane court are hard on his heels. File Under: Fantasy [ In Arcadia | Seek and Hide | The Queen of Moths | Lands of the Damned ]

      Under the Pendulum Sun
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