City of Saints and Madmen

<p><b>From the author of <i>Annihilation</i>, now a major motion picture on Netflix.</b><br><br>From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Miéville and Michael Moorcock, <i>City of Saints and Madmen </i>is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This collection of four linked novellas is the perfect introduction to VanderMeer’s vividly imagined world.<br><br>In the city of Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he’s imagined a city called Ambergris, invented its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago. Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis – a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.<br><br>These tales of Ambergris include the World Fantasy Award-winning novella,<i> The Transformation of Martin Lake</i>.</p>