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The Land Across

The Land Across - Paperback

by Gene Wolfe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gene WolfePublish date:2014-11-25Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tor BooksISBN-13:9780765335968ISBN-10:765335964UPC:9780765335968Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:FantasyBook Topic:Contemporary, UrbanSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC8STCV5WY

In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe's engrossing fantasy novel, readers are kept guessing until the very end, and long after.

An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap?

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tor BooksISBN-13:9780765335968ISBN-10:765335964UPC:9780765335968Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:FantasyBook Topic:Contemporary, UrbanSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC8STCV5WY

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe.


A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.
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