Nike Sulway
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, Rupettaâ€™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 everyoneâ€™s lives, but Rupettaâ€”the immortal being on whose existence and history those laws are basedâ€”is the keeper of a secret that will tear apart the world her followers have built in her name. The closeness between women is mirrored in the relationship between Henri and Miri, a woman at the college with whom she fall in love, and also between mothers and daughters and grandmothers and granddaughters - a heritage of affection that loops down over the centuries.,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.
Fantasy,Science Fiction,Fiction,Speculative Fiction,LGBT,Science Fiction Fantasy,Historical,Historical Fiction,Literature,Cultural,Australia,Artificial Intelligence
Rupetta