Description: "An ingenious tale of myth, magic and murder.told in rich prose.[An] auspicious debut." -- Seattle Times " A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is literary magic of the highest order . It reads with the level care of a finely crafted storybut also with the fresh familiarity of a folksong.A spectacular read." -- The Vancouver Sun "Haunting [and] hypnotic." -- Seattle Magazine "In mesmerizing prose, debut novelist Harun spins a chilling tale shot through with both aching realism and age-old folktales, melding them together to capture a landscape lush with possibility and imagination and terrifying in its vast emptiness." -- Booklist , starred review "Intertwining with real-world pain and loss, this debut novel gains an extra sense of risk and realism, pitting ordinary, human evil against supernatural wickedness." -- The Globe and Mail "Much as it does to the novel's characters, the gothic ambiance wraps around the reader and won't let go." -- Library Journal "Harun creates a masterfully bleak and spooky mood, and succinctly captures the desperation of the young people's lives[a] promising debut." -- Publishers Weekly "Through a complex narrative structure, Harun [invests] all of her actionwith an aura of myth and folk legend." -- Kirkus Reviews " A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is a rich, haunting, original novel that captures evil in many forms--mythic, magic and chillingly real. Adrianne Harun's writing can hold you breathless." --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins "I have long been a fan of Adrianne Harun's work, and A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain has raised my admiration to new heights. Writing with astonishing vividness, Harun weaves her own myths and magic as she plots her amazing tale." --Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy "Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere." --Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever

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