num_pages: 298
description: As Ombria in Shadow demonstrates, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip (author of Riddle-Master, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and other novels) ranks with Ursula K. Le Guin and Jane Yolen as one of the great fantasists of the 20th century--and the 21st.The Prince of Ombria lies dying, and already his sinister great-aunt, Domina Pearl--called the Black Pearl--is seizing power. The Prince's heir is a child, a boy too young to oppose her, and the Prince's nephew is a powerless bastard, an artist preoccupied with sketching the decaying city. No one lives who may stop the Black Pearl's ascent to the throne, or so it seems. But beneath the streets of Ombria lies a second, shadow Ombria, a buried city inhabited not only by ghosts, but by a powerful, mysterious sorceress and her creation, a girl sculpted from wax. But the sorceress is a woman of uncertain allegiances, and her beautiful young assistant has become fascinated by the Prince's bastard nephew--and has caught the malevolent eye of the Black Pearl. --Cynthia Ward
language: English
title: Ombria in Shadow
titlecomplete: Ombria in Shadow
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult, Epic Fantasy, Sci Fi Fantasy, Adult, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, High Fantasy
ratings_count: 4882
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Tähtifantasia Award
publisher: Ace Hardcover