The Saint of Bright Doors
by Vajra Chandrasekera
🏆 Winner of the 2024 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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“The city of Luriat feels South Asian – Chandrasekera is Sri Lankan – and entirely convincing. The magic woven throughout is beautifully strange. Fetter can see devils of all sorts that other people don’t, clinging to the sides of buildings or shuffling horribly down streets. His father’s Saints have powers of their own – one spends days surveilling the city from the skies, pacing in strange patterns overhead. And of course there are the bright doors: doors that were left closed too long, and now won’t open again. In Luriat, all doors are required to have openings or windows, to prevent them turning into bright doors.” Read more...
“In the novel’s more surreal passages, Chandrasekera achieves the equally-difficult quality of a dreamlike higher reality, that sits beyond the logic of our surface world but doesn’t seem less satisfying for it – rather it seems, somehow, more true. The Saint of Bright Doors is an astonishing debut.” Read more...
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