Binding: Hardcover
Description: Like a modern Midsummer Night's Dream an ethereal and haunting novel about a young spy who enchanted by a species of half - swan half - human creatures an obsession that ultimately leads her to question her own existence and sanity. In the not - too - distant future a young spy named El sabet Eva finds herself mentally unraveling following an assignment in Paris. Everything in El sabet's life in the city her friends social engagements and late nights revolved around her work as a spy with the Special Unit. To regain her mental balance El sabet finds herself taking long solitary walks near the lake. One day she sees two strange beasts emerging from the water a pair of seemingly mythical creatures human woman above the waist swan below. Curious she follows them through tangles of thickets to a clearing and into a strange new reality. El sabet's walks become regular visits to these swan women. As she earns their trust the creatures reveal the enigma of their secret existence and their desire to reproduce. Pulled further and further into the swanfolk's monomaniacal (and often violent) quest El sabet finds her own mind growing increasingly untrustworthy. Ultimately she is forced to reckon with both the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings and her own past and face a truth she's carefully tried to evade.
Title: Swanfolk A Novel
Author(s): Omarsdottir Kristin
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063158375
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/5/2022