About the author
Arkady Martine is the pen name of American historian AnnaLinden Weller. Her academic work concerns the Byzantine Empire, and her fiction is particularly interested in imperial culture, diplomacy, language, and people who live between political identities.
A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace form the Teixcalaan duology, following Ambassador Mahit Dzmare as she navigates an empire she admires without wanting her home absorbed by it.
Where to start
Read A Memory Called Empire before A Desolation Called Peace; the second novel expands the diplomatic and linguistic questions established in the first.
