Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0380974576
Pages: 257 pages
Publisher: Eos
Price: $25.00
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0380974576
Pages: 257 pages
Publisher: Eos
Price: $25.00
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: There is life in the Nekropolis - but no future. Hariba spent her youth here, among the exquisite paper flower wreaths her mother meticulously constructed, playing contentedly with other children around the rows and rows of old buildings housing the crumbling bones of the dead. But when an older brother's criminal indiscretion robbed Hariba of any possibility of a husband, she agreed to have herself "jessed" - submitting to the technoblological process designed to render her docile and subservient to whomever has purchased her service.
At the age of twenty-six, she enters the house of a wealthy merchant as an indentured servant. It is a new world for Hariba, filled with many wondrous objects and strange amusements that she has never before seen.
But slowly, almost imperceptibly, Hariba's revulsion metamorphoses into acceptance, and then into something much more. For Akhmim, like her, is a nonentity at the very bottom of the social order - and the harni's gentle concern for her is real. And if she shuts
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