Mammoths at the Gates
core novella 2023 The Singing Hills Cycle
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (8,318 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 123 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250851437 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Mammoths at the Gates, fourth novella in the Singing Hills Cycle, brings cleric Chih back to Singing Hills Abbey after years of traveling, only to learn that their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died. Before Chih can properly grieve, Thien's granddaughters arrive riding mammoths and lay siege to the abbey gates, demanding the return of their grandfather's body. Amid the standoff, Chih reunites with an old friend, Ru, who now serves as acting divine of the abbey, and reconnects with their neixin companion, Almost Brilliant. As the abbey prepares a talking ceremony to honor Thien's memory, Chih makes the contested decision to invite the angry granddaughters inside so they can learn about their grandfather's work and life at Singing Hills.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Singing Hills Cycle
- Series: The Singing Hills Cycle core; position 4 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nghi Vo
Notes
- From the series record (The Singing Hills Cycle): Ongoing connected-novella cycle following the wandering cleric Chih and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant, collecting oral histories across the world of Anh. A seventh entry, A Long and Speaking Silence, has been announced but not yet published as of this record.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Singing Hills Cycle: position 4 of 7: previous Into the Riverlands (2022) · next The Brides of High Hill (2024)
- Internal chronology, within The Singing Hills Cycle: position 4 of 6: previous Into the Riverlands (2022) · next The Brides of High Hill (2024)
Sources
← The Singing Hills Cycle dossier · All universes
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