How many women are you? he asked.
The Queen of the Night, my uncanny 19th Century opera novel, is in paperback tomorrow at booksellers near you.
A NYTBR Editor’s Choice and a national bestseller. Some praise for the novel:
“A night at an opera you’ll wish never-ending.”
Helen Oyeyemi, author of Mr. Fox and Boy Snow Bird
“One doesn’t so much read Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night as one is bewitched by it. Beneath its epic sweep, gorgeous language, and haunting details is the most elemental, and eternal, of narratives: that of the necessities and perils of self-reinvention, and the sorrow and giddiness of aspiring to a life of artistic transcendance.”
Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life and People In The Trees
“The Queen of the Night is a luminous universe into which its lucky readers can dissolve completely, metamorphosing alongside its shapeshifting protagonist. Lilliet Berne steals her name from a gravestone and launches into a life of full-throated song; her voice is an intoxicant, and this book is a glorious performance. Chee’s enveloping, seductive prose is perfectly matched to the circus world of the opera.”
Karen Russell, New York Times Best Selling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires In The Lemon Grove
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Queen gif and paperdoll set by Forsyth Harmon. Paperdolls pdf available for download here.
