{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions \u2014 until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov\u2019s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its former supremacy.\r\n\r\nInto this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov\u2019s oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country\u2019s most accomplished spies, dispatched \u2014 along with her terrifying \u201csecretary\u201d, Sigrud \u2014 to solve a murder.\r\n\r\nBut as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem, and that Bulikov\u2019s cruel reign may not yet be over.\r\n\r\nA tale of vast conspiracies, dead gods, and buried histories, City of Stairs is at once a gripping spy novel and a stunningly original work of fantasy."}, "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223108840951", "urn:sfpl:31223108840985", "urn:sfpl:31223108840977", "urn:sfpl:31223108840944", "urn:sfpl:31223108840969", "urn:sfpl:31223108840993", "urn:sfpl:31223108840928"], "key": "/books/OL27164620M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL6586893A"}], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "pagination": "452 pages", "source_records": ["marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run05.mrc:78500547:3907", "ia:cityofstairsnove0000benn", "bwb:9780804137171"], "title": "City of Stairs", "number_of_pages": 452, "edition_name": "First edition.", "subjects": ["Murder", "Investigation", "Spy stories", "Fiction"], "publish_date": "2014", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Robert Jackson Bennett", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL19984492W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "covers": [11604660], "identifiers": {}, "ocaid": "cityofstairsnove0000benn", "isbn_10": ["080413717X"], "isbn_13": ["9780804137171"], "lccn": ["2013040422"], "oclc_numbers": ["862222210"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.6"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3602.E66455 C58 2014", "PS3602.E66455C58"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-18T14:40:20.762296"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-06T22:00:03.604290"}}