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Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky''s award-winning fantasy novel City of Last Chances

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line.

Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical unit.

Led by ''the Butcher'', an ogre of a man who''s a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture, the unit''s motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs i

House of Open Wounds

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 8 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781035901364
      978-1035901364
      ISBN-10 1035901366
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      Fiction Fantasy Books by Adrian Tchaikovsky

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky''s award-winning fantasy novel City of Last Chances

      City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line.

      Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical unit.

      Led by ''the Butcher'', an ogre of a man who''s a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture, the unit''s motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs i

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