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All Flowers Bloom - by Kawika Guillermo (Paperback)

All Flowers Bloom - by  Kawika Guillermo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b> Winner of the 2021 Reviewers Choice Gold Award for Best General Fiction/Novel </b></p><p>"A defiant and tender call for the power of love, across a thousand lifetimes and lands. Guillermo's imagination is breath-taking, and he shows the power of the written word as at once the most high-fidelity and stylized of mediums." <br>-Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Grace of Kings</p><p>"Kawika Guillermo has achieved an ambitious feat: to chronicle a memory-and its vast empire of battles and love, constant guises and surprises-that spans over four thousand years through a narrator who, like the beloved, is blessed, or cursed, with hundreds of lives, each rebirth announcing a different milieu, a different role. At its core, All Flowers Bloom is a lover's discourse on desire, its multiple masks and power to make lovers and strangers, and traitors and rescuers out of us."<br>-R. Zamora Linmark, author of Rolling the R's and Leche</p><p>"All Flowers Bloom is a beguiling book, with an inventive narrative unlike anything I have encountered before. This is an emotional journey through lifetimes and loves and losses. Kawika Guillermo delivers wonderment and surprise, a complex universe, and an unforgettable cast of characters."<br>-Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?</p> <p>In a cruise ship stateroom, a soul awakens in the afterlife, still dressed in the Roman servant garbs of his previous life.<p>He can't remember much, but a silent woman stands out in his memory: his first and only love.</p><p>Unable to cope with an eternity without her, he leaps from the ship and back into the depths of the life stream.</p><p>Five hundred years later, he awakens again in the same stateroom, alone and fueled with new memories of her.</p><p>In his past lives she was a male insurgent, an elderly wise woman, an unruly servant.</p><p>For a millennia the pair are tethered together, clashing in love and fear, betraying each other in times of war and famine.</p><p>Before memory drives him mad, he vows to rescue her from the stream - even if it takes a thousand lifetimes more.</p>

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