2019/136: A Conspiracy of Truths -- Alexandra Rowland
2019/136: A Conspiracy of Truths -- Alexandra Rowland
An elderly, itinerant storyteller is arrested in the cold northern backwater of Nuryevet, on charges of witchcraft and brazen impertinence. He manages to persuade the judge he's not a witch -- and is then imprisoned on suspicion of spying. ( no spoilers )
We were trying to come up with things that were true, but garden-variety truth is so dull. It just doesn't catch the heart and mind the way Truth does, and to tell the Truth, oftentimes you must lie. [p. 324]
An elderly, itinerant storyteller is arrested in the cold northern backwater of Nuryevet, on charges of witchcraft and brazen impertinence. He manages to persuade the judge he's not a witch -- and is then imprisoned on suspicion of spying. ( no spoilers )