Imagine a place rippled with divine fingerprints where every corner hides a historical secret or an impossible stairway. "City of Stairs" offers a vividly unique setting where the divine and the mortal coil unpredictably. If you're drawn to worlds with deep lore and cities as complex as their inhabitants, this book's twisted history and political intrigue will captivate you. Investigate alongside the protagonist and uncover the layers of a city where the divine once walked.

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• Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2015)
• World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2015)
• British Fantasy Award Nominee for Robert Holdstock Award (best fantasy novel) (2015)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2014)

In the city of stairs, nothing is as it seems.You've got to be careful when you're chasing a murderer through Bulikov, for the world is not as it should be in that city. When the gods were destroyed and all worship of them banned by the Polis, reality folded; now stairs lead to nowhere, alleyways have become portals to the past, and criminals disappear into thin air.The murder of Dr Efrem Pangyui, the Polis diplomat researching the Continent's past, has begun something and now whispers of an uprising flutter out from invisible corners.

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