Blackheart Man
A Novel
$51.16
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this “immersive…engaging” (Kirkus Reviews) Caribbean-inspired dark fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.
Veycosi, in training as a griot (a historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on Chynchin’s Colloquium of scholars. However, unexpected events prevent that from happening…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781668005118 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1668005115 |
| Author: | Nalo Hopkinson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Saga Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 279g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 135mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“Nalo Hopkinson has been building immersive worlds for decades…There are so many characters, cultures, languages, and plot points in this novel, and Hopkinson weaves them together masterfully.” * Booklist, starred review *
“Much like the Blackheart Man of legend, readers will be swallowed whole by this novel and reemerge completely changed.” * Library Journal *
“Hopkinson fills Chynchin to the brim with immersive details, from the oral tradition of the chantwells, to the tensions between different social groups, to the distinctive and engaging voices of her characters.” * Kirkus *
“Blackheart Man is here, I’m happy to report that it’s been worth the wait. It’s Hopkinson’s most narratively complex novel since The Salt Roads, her boldest re-imagining of Caribbean culture since The New Moon’s Arms…, and her most linguistically inventive work to date.” * Locus Magazine *
Recipient of the 2021 Damon Knight Grand Memorial Award
from The Science Fiction Writers of America
Praise for Nalo Hopkinson and Blackheart Man
“Blackheart Man is yet another brilliant novel from a master writer. The clarity and rhythms of Hopkinson’s prose are pure pleasure to read, and her ability to examine the nuances of human nature, both good and ill, always dazzles.” -Kate Elliott, author of Unconquerable Sun and Servant Mage
“Hopkinson’s narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin.” -The New York Times
“Hopkinson owns one of the more important and original voices in SF.” -Publishers Weekly
“Hopkinson’s stories dazzle.” -NPR
“The power of Hopkinson’s stories lies in their capacity to help us reimagine our own movement through the world and to wonderfully innovate new trajectories for speculative fiction as a whole.” -Los Angeles Review of Books
“Her voice is clearly her own, charged with deep feeling and vast imagination.” -San Francisco Chronicle
“Utterly original….” -Karen Joy Fowler, award-winning author of Booth, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson is the award-winning author of numerous novels and short stories for adults. Nalo grew up in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana before moving to Canada when she was sixteen.
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