The Chimes

Name: The Chimes
ISBN: 9780857522832

by Anna Smaill

World Fantasy · 2016 · Winner

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SceptreMay 7, 2015Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9780857522832

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel	2016	Winner	“Anna Smaill's post-apocalyptic music novel won for its extraordinary formal inventiveness, its Orkney Scots-tinged prose, and the fragile beauty of a world built around memory and loss.”

About This Book

In a post-apocalyptic England where written language is abolished and replaced by an oppressive musical order called the Chimes, a young man who cannot hold memories searches for the truth about who he is and what was lost.

About the Author

Anna SmaillNZ

Anna Smaill is a New Zealand author and musician whose debut novel The Chimes won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2016. Set in a post-apocalyptic England where written language has been abolished and replaced by music, the novel was praised for its lyrical prose and distinctive vision. Smaill was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Read more →