excerpt:
Taifa of Tuluz
Spring 1194
“A wondrous thing is happening at the university!” said Avram to Isaac the Blind. “Like nothing you’ve ever seen!”
“I daresay you’re right,” Isaac answered, “since the last time I saw anything, I was younger than you.”
➤ historical fantasynovelette set in a muslim kingdom on the iberian peninsula in the 12th century, with a jewish scholar as the viewpoint character
➤ I love the setting, richly full of a wide variety of types of people and languages and religions, with universities and scientific progress and people doing magic, all interacting with each other
➤ the mystery at the heart of the story is that someone is stealing people's languages of study, on purpose, leaving behind only whatever their first language was. why, and how? and is it reversible?
➤ it's about people's relationships with language and with knowledge and with the world. it's great!
➤ 14k words in length
