The Bastards' Paradise
How many lives they have lived, if only for a night!
Puppets and peril, lonely streets and glittering salons — Rupert and Istvan have played through it all, and sought to make the road their lasting home. But that road winds through the past — including the brothel called the Rose and Poppy — while threats and invitations abound: a scheming social climber, a lovesick exile, the Mercury Theatre closed... or is it? Old friends from afar join comrades in the here-and-now, as power, love, and fate combine to play out the final chapter of the story of a lifetime.
The curtains rose with UNDER THE POPPY, the passionate play continued in THE MERCURY WALTZ. Now Kathe Koja brings the POPPY trilogy to a stunning and masterful conclusion in THE BASTARDS’ PARADISE.
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Kathe Koja
Kathe Koja (born 1960) is an American writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but over the past few years has turned to writing young adult novels.
Koja is also a prolific author of short stories, including many in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg. Most of her short fiction remains uncollected. Koja's novels and short stories frequently concern characters who have been in some way marginalized by society, often focusing on the transcendence and/or disintegration which proceeds this social isolation (as in The Cipher, Bad Brain, "Teratisms," The Blue Mirror, etc.). Koja won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel The Cipher, and a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Her prose has been described as "stunning".
Under the Poppy trilogy
Under the Poppy trilogy consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
