There are very few fantasy novels that mix so gleefully influences from the Ancient
24.06.19
Leafing through the Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History
The House of Binding Thorns
Aliette de Bodard is an exophonic writer (a writer whose mother tongue is not the language she uses to write her stories in). Even though she was born in the United States, she was brought up mainly in France in a Franco-Vietnamese family. She spent a few years in London when she was a teenager (she studied at the Lycée Français) before crossing back over the Channel to study and work in Paris, where she currently lives.

The House of Binding Thorns is the second book of her Dominion of the Fallen
01.04.19 – 07.04.19
My decision to write in English over the weekend might have been rushed. As soon as I come up with a new idea or a new project, I’m overwhelmed with doubts. I spend my life in this permanent state of mind.
To be honest, I can’t deny I feel like I’m being unfaithful to my mother tongue. French and I, we go way back… and I still have deep feelings for my mother tongue (quite an understatement).