The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg
The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg
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The Four Profound Weaves
A Birdverse Book

Author: R.B. Lemberg

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/17/2020

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler—in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg's award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe

The Surun' nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.

Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.

As his past catches up, the nameless man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya—while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.

In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg's beloved Birdverse, The Four Profound Weaves offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one's identity in a hostile world.

About R.B. Lemberg

R. B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine's Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and many other venues. R. B.'s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda

Ahhhh....now, I don't know if it was just me butI felt lost from the start...and only got progressively more lost as the book went on. From what I can tell, this book had two main perspectives - Uiziya e Lali and a nameless man - and they go on an adventure together. Magic is dependent on weaving c......more

Goodreads review by Allison

I wanted to love this so much. And I thought, given the first couple chapters, I couldn't NOT love it. Alas, it turned quickly into tropes without exploring why someone would turn into this person, and when you're talking about self identity and use the word "profound" in your title, I kind of expec......more