School of Shards

“Vita Nostra is singular and brilliant—unlike anything I’ve ever read.” — R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel “Vita Nostra —a cross between Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian [...] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn’t know you wanted.” — Washington Post “I was stunned by [Vita Nostra]—not just by the story, which was a revelation to me in itself, but also by the vividness and fluency and power of Hersey’s translation. Vita Nostra has become a powerful influence on my own writing. It’s a book that has the potential to become a modern classic of its genre, and I couldn’t be more excited to see it get the global audience in English it so richly deserves.” — Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians “Amazing book. Dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics.” — Aliette de Bodard, award-winning author of The Tea Master and the Detective “As with the previous book, inventive storytelling delves into philosophical concepts such as time, meaning, and language. This is a novel that transcends genre and will astound readers looking for serious, contemporary fiction.”  — Library Journal (starred review) on Assassin of Reality