And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he has made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.īy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose - and find - yourself again. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading - and finds himself enchanted. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. Psychotic patients sometimes believe they're developing mystical powers, speaking to animals or conversing with God during their episodes. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Saints and Madmen, bestselling author Russell Shorto explains how modern science is beginning to reconcile centuries of religious experiences with current psychiatric theories. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited - an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.Ĭity of elegance and squalor. In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic.
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