Mark Z. Danielewski is famous for experimental, challenging novels like House of Leaves and Only Revolutions. Now he’s back with The Fifty-Year Sword, a strange novella that was originally released in a tiny print run from a Dutch publisher and is now coming out in a 75,000 copy print run. There’s also a snazzy limited edition.
Check out the cover and inside pages to the new hardcover of The Fifty-Year Sword, exclusively here on io9. And Danielewski will be coming here on the site to answer your questions, starting at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST. Start posting your questions for Mark Z. Danielewski below!
Hardcover edition of The Fifty-Year Sword from Pantheon Books.
In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.
Hardcover edition
Signed/Deluxe version with latched-box and Nepalese binding
ISBN: 978-0-307-90840-7
$100.000
1000 copies
