Rupetta

N. A. Sulway

Fantasy

Cover artwork by Timothy Parker Russell.

Winner of the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Winner of the 2014 Norma K. Hemming Award. Shortlisted for the 2014 Aurealis Awards. Runner-up (shortlisted) in the 2014 Crawford Memorial Award.

Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rupetta’s consciousness is tied to the women who wind her. In the years that follow she is bought and sold, borrowed, forgotten and revered. By the twentieth century, the Rupettan four-fold law rules everyone’s lives, but Rupetta — the immortal being on whose existence and history those laws are based — is the keeper of a secret that will tear apart the world her followers have built in her name.

This stunning new novel by award-winning Australian writer Nike Sulway invokes the great tradition of European fantasy/horror fiction and moves it forward in a superbly imaginative, highly original fashion.

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Published
January 2013
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N. A. Sulway

Nike Sulway is an Australian author who lives and works in Brisbane. In 2000, Nike won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Emerging Queensland Author for her novel, The Bone Flute, which was released by UQP in 2001 and subsequently shortlisted in the Commonwealth Writers Awards. Her children’s book, What the Sky Knows, was published in May 2005 and shortlisted for the 2006 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. Her adult novel, The True Green of Hope was released in August 2005.