In the Cities of Coin and Spice
core novel 2007 The Orphan's Tales
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.39 (2,984 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553384048 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The second and concluding volume returns to the orphan girl in the palace garden, whose eyelids are tattooed with an apparently endless store of tales, and to the prince who has been listening to them in secret. She now tells the stories inked around her other eye, nested one inside another, from cities of coin and spice to singing manticores and stranger things. But the wedding of the prince's sister Dinarzad is drawing near, the harsh world outside is pressing in on the garden, and the orphan's stories are finally running out, until the tale of the girl herself must be told.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Orphan's Tales
- Series: The Orphan's Tales core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Notes
- From the series record (The Orphan's Tales): Two volumes of nested tales told by an orphan girl in a sultan's garden.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Orphan's Tales: position 2 of 2: previous In the Night Garden (2006)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Orphan's Tales
- Reader ratings: mythpunk shelf listing
- Apple Books: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (publisher description)
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