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    The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book
    The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book
    The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book

    Written by R. B. Lemberg

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler-in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg's award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe

    The Surun' nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.

    Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.

    As his past catches up, the nameless man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya-while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.

    In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg's beloved Birdverse, The Four Profound Weaves offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one's identity in a hostile world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 17, 2020
    ISBN9781705258644
    The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book

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      A book of beautiful prose about identity and life purpose.