{"product_id":"the-gilded-ruin-9798258701268","title":"The Gilded Ruin","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Moloney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dystopian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman begins to notice what her perfect world has been covering.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a city where nothing goes wrong, Mara counsels couples through amicable separations and widows through measured grief. Her clients' feelings arrive correctly calibrated; her sessions close on time; her notes fit the templates. Then a man sits at her desk and tells her his marriage has ended with no charge at all, and she writes one word on her pad - \u003ci\u003eAgain\u003c\/i\u003e - that she cannot remember having written before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe leaves in the square are too evenly arranged. The exhibition at the Sable Gallery contains a fourteenth-century portrait of a woman who is not quite Mara and not quite not. A figure at the edge of her vision watches without interrupting. Somewhere in a narrow dark-stone building on Crane Street, someone has been waiting centuries for the version of her that would stay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e is Book One of a literary speculative trilogy about the cost of being real in a world designed to erase feeling. For readers of Susanna Clarke's \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e, V. E. Schwab's \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003c\/i\u003e, Kazuo Ishiguro's \u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, and Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's \u003ci\u003eThis Is How You Lose the Time War\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat readers are saying: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e[This line left for post-launch: fill in with quote from first positive review.]\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883449893015,"sku":"9798258701268","price":1469.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258701268.webp?v=1781101946","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-gilded-ruin-9798258701268","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}