Provenance is St. Louisan Ann Leckie's first novel since the triumph of her debut Imperial Radch Trilogy: Ancillary Justice; Ancillary Sword; and Ancillary Mercy.
Ingray Aughskold, the foster daughter of Netano Aughskold, an important politician on the planet Hwae, is engaged in a desperate rivalry with eir foster brother Danach; the two of em competing to be chosen as Netano's heir. To gain eir mother's approval, Ingray concocts a scheme to break a notorious thief out of Compassionate Removal and persuade em to reveal the whereabouts of precious historical "vestiges" that e stole, so that Ingray's mother can restore the vestiges to the Lareum that houses all eir planet's most sacred artifacts.
Provenance is set in one small corner of the Radchaai universe. It is an entirely different approach, combining elements of the classic cozy mystery and the comedy of manners, with a plot that features sibling rivalry writ large, art fraud, unpredictable alien species and the threat of interplanetary war. Then Leckie delivers a happily-ever-after conclusion that contradicts all our assumptions. I look forward to following Leckie on many more forays into her intriguing universe!
Click HERE to read an interview with the author from Wired Magazine.
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Click HERE to read a review from the New York Times.
Click HERE to read a review from The Guardian newspaper.
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