Imajica

Imajica
Clive Barker

A book of revelations. A seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition and mythic horror. Clive Barker takes us on a voyage to worlds beyond our knowledge, but within our grasp.John Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master forger whose life is a series of lies. Judith Odell, a beautiful woman desired by three powerful men, but belonging to none of them. Pie’oh’pah, a mysterious assassin who deals in love as well as death. These three are united in a desperate search for the heart of a universal mystery, and will find the truth that lies in a place as mysterious as the face of God, and as secret as the human soul. They discover the Imajica.Imajica is many things: an epic novel of vast panoramas and intimate, obsessive passions, embracing ghosts and reflections as well as the human and the divine.

CLIVE BARKER

IMAJICA

Copyright (#ulink_1c91fb2f-7993-5a5d-a418-a91e10c48e68)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by HarpcrCollinsPublishers 1991

Copyright © Clive Barker 1991

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‘Even in greater in size and scope than Weaveworld … erotic, apocalyptic, often horrifying, Imajica is beautifully written, a marvellous feat of the imagination.’

City News

‘An invocation of both magic and the imagination, a novel of eerie and erotic enchantment. In Imajica we witness the finest use of the dialect of horror and fantasy: the pursuit of possibilities. Imajica is an existential-romantic quest, a speculation on the nature of woman and man, goddess and god, reality and dream. A majestic maze of mythmaking, a fiction that questions all assumptions of its reality - and our own.’

Washington Times

‘Barker’s prodigious imagination delivers magicians, dopplegangers, Boschean creatures of staggeringly various descriptions and a pantheon of gods and goddess, seduced by power and redeemed by love in a story of violence, occasional unconventional eroticism and mesmerising invention.’

Publishers Weekly

Contents

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Title Page (#ulink_9743a4fd-481f-5ce3-85c3-157d65587a3d)

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CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_d8f4484f-8c33-5276-9298-812f38673087)

CHAPTER TWO (#ulink_7e455151-6909-570e-8d3f-7b0e5513bf0f)

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CHAPTER EIGHT (#ulink_79aa7e71-ada1-5bd2-92ee-94c87bdae49c)

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CHAPTER TWELVE (#ulink_98e9b634-662a-5fa0-94cc-0902dbdb0fe8)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#ulink_1053bf4b-ca0b-51d1-b950-bbf364400e35)

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CHAPTER TWENTY (#ulink_172dace6-8a10-52e5-8f59-476c19165d1b)

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