Lent: A Novel of Many Returns

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the person who remade fifteenth-century Florence—in all its astonishing strangeness

Younger Girolamo’s life is a sequence of miracles.

It’s a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can solid them out with the pressure of his will. It’s a miracle that he’s buddies with Pico della Mirandola, the Rely of Concordia. It’s a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo “the Magnificent,” the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial mild, a shock to everybody, Lorenzo included. It’s a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him within the area, and convinces him to not solely spare Florence but additionally shield it. It’s a miracle than at any time when Girolamo preaches, crowds swoon. It’s a miracle that, regardless of the Pope’s willpower to deliver younger Girolamo to heel, he’s nonetheless on the unfastened…and, now, operating Florence in all however title.

That’s solely the start. As a result of Girolamo Savanarola will not be who—or what—he thinks he’s. He’ll uncover the reality about himself on the most startling potential time. And this can be solely the start of his many lives.

“Rendered with Walton’s standard energy and sweetness…It is this haunting character complexity that in the end holds the reader captive to the story.” —N. Okay. Jemisin, New York Occasions, on My Actual Youngsters

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