The Winged Histories Sofia Samatar by Sofia Samatar 9781618731159, 1618731157 instant download after payment.

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“Sofia Samatar’s second novel is an imagist epic fantasy, a feminist & anti-colonialist reworking of one of those spongy-thick novels with maps at the front (it has a map at the front) and, like her first novel A Stranger in Olondria, a book about books, reading, & language. It is dazzlingly beautiful and as close to perfect as a reader can hope.” — Jane Franklin, Rain Taxi

“A nuanced & subtle tale of war, love, duty, family, & honor. It’s like polyphony–a chorus of voices singing different melodies, sometimes at odds, but ultimately harmonious. And moving. And exciting. Have I mentioned exciting?” — Delia Sherman, author of The Freedom Maze

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Sofia Samatar is the author of five books, most recently the memoir The White Mosque. Her works include the award-winning epic fantasy A Stranger in Olondria & Monster Portraits, an exploration of monsters in collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar.

Sofia Samatar is an American of Somali & Swiss German Mennonite background. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, Stone Telling, & Strange Horizons. 

Sofia Samatar’s most recent book, the memoir The White Mosque, tells the story of her trip to Uzbekistan to research a group of Mennonites who followed a charismatic preacher to Central Asia in the nineteenth century. Through this history of connections across borders of religion & ethnicity, Samatar considers her own Somali & Mennonite heritage, as well as missionaries, travel writing, apocalyptic visions, & the many ways we enter the stories of others. The White Mosque received the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir & was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award.