The Brides of High Hill
core novella 2024 The Singing Hills Cycle
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (6,760 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 116 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250851444 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The Brides of High Hill, fifth novella in Nghi Vo's Singing Hills Cycle, is set in the days leading up to a wedding at the grand estate of Doi Cao in the land of Ahn. Cleric Chih arrives at the invitation of the bride-to-be, Pham Nhung, a lively young woman who quickly takes a liking to the traveling cleric. The household is dominated by Lord Guo, a wealthy older man who has already outlived several previous wives, and overshadowed by his reclusive son, Guo Zhihao, who lives apart from the family under a curse that keeps him from speaking of whatever happened to his father's earlier brides. As the wedding preparations continue around them, Chih senses that something is deeply wrong beneath the estate's genteel surface and begins quietly investigating the household's secrets.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Singing Hills Cycle
- Series: The Singing Hills Cycle core; position 5 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 5 of 7: previous Mammoths at the Gates (2023) · next A Mouthful of Dust (2025)
- Internal chronology, within The Singing Hills Cycle: position 5 of 6: previous Mammoths at the Gates (2023) · next A Mouthful of Dust (2025)
Sources
- The Hugo Awards: 2021 Hugo Awards
- https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/the-brides-of-high-hill-by-nghi-vo/
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