None of these three are who they seem, and it is from their meeting that the story starts in earnest, taking us into realms lying just behind the veil of our reality. Here, we meet Gentle, a layabout, wanderer, and womaniser, and former lover of Judith’s, who is sent after her and the assassin to New York. Estabrook, a wealthy man slighted by his lover Judith, contracts a legendary killer, Pie ‘oh Pah, to end Judith’s life.Įstabrook, however, soon regrets his rash decision, and contrives to cancel the hit. Our story starts in the Fifth Dominion, London, which itself seems a fantastical dimension when later viewed from the perspective of characters from other worlds. In précis, Imajica is a story of the Five Dominions: the Four Reconciled Dominions, and the Fifth Unreconciled Dominion of Earth. It might be described as an epic of sexuality and gender, but even that is doing a disservice to the spiritual dimension of the novel that almost haunts the characters on their journey into realms beyond imagination. Imajica is like no other book I have read: at turns fantastic and mundane, eerily phantasmagorical and earthily grounded in real-world locations and problems.
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