by Paul Park
—Karen Joy Fowler
“The premise of the novel is fascinating, and the prose is lyrical.”
—Romantic Times BOOKreviews
“All the world in a book! A Princess of Roumania is wildly original and simply wonderful, a phantasmagoria of wicked women, dangerous men, and seductive magic. Paul Park is one of the most original and delightful writers in fantasy today.”
—Michael Swanwick
“A Princess of Roumania puts Park into the top ranks of modern fantasy writers.”
—The Denver Post
“A Princess of Roumania is at once a vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art, and immediately appealing in all the ways that the heart-tugging matter of high fantasy ought to be. Park’s Miranda is as brave and questing as a heroine of fantasy should be, and his Baroness Ceaucescu is a fascinating portrait of unstoppable evil that is never more or less than appallingly—even appealingly—human. Every page of this book holds something you couldn’t have imagined and yet that strikes you as supremely right and satisfying. A huge achievement.”
—John Crowley
“A smart political drama—one laced with paranoia-inducing saboteurs and riddling apparitions … It’s a journey almost as gratifying as the magic trick pulled off by Park, who should be knighted for breathing life into an oft-tired genre.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Paul Park’s A Princess of Roumania will delight fantasy readers with his mix of intrigue, death, and the possibility of rebirth. Park, author of half a dozen science fiction novels and a wonderful short story collection, has turned in an interesting first volume in what promises to be an exciting and thought-provoking series.… Readers will be kept guessing until the end, when they will begin the wait for the next book.”
—BookPage
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE TOURMALINE
Copyright © 2006 by Paul Park
All rights reserved.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
A Tor Book
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5296-5
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5296-6
First Edition: July 2006
First Mass Market Edition: December 2007
eISBN 9781466839373
First eBook edition: January 2013