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Palaces of the Crow: A speculative historical thriller from the Hugo and Locus Award winner

Ray Nayler

From the Locus and Hugo Award-winning author Ray Nayler, this haunting novel blends history and speculative wonder into a story of survival, loyalty and the fragile beauty of life in the darkest of times.

Praise for Ray Nayler
'first-rate science fiction' - CORY DOCTOROW
'masterful' - SCIFI MIND
'intelligent, ambitious and thought-provoking' SFF WORLD
'cerebral' GUARDIAN

June 1941, Eastern Europe. As the German blitzkrieg tears across a divided continent, four young lives are thrown into chaos: Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a scientist; Czeslaw, an underage Polish deserter fleeing the Red Army; Kezia, a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivisation; and a nameless,, abandoned boy who cannot speak.

Driven deep into the Lithuanian woods, they form an unbreakable bond with one another and with a flock of crows whose uncanny intelligence hints at a secret older and stranger than they could ever have imagined.

Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler is the author of the novels Where the Axe Is Buried and The Mountain in the Sea, which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the novella The Tusks of Extinction, which won a Hugo Award. Born in Quebec and raised in California, Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. He most recently served as international adviser to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. He lives in Washington, DC.

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