The fine folks at B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG were the first to reveal the stunning cover by Sarah Anne Langton to World Fantasy award winner Lavie Tidhar’s new novel UNHOLY LAND.

If you’ll allow me get get meta for a moment, World Fantasy Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s (CENTRAL STATION, The Bookman Histories) new novel UNHOLY LAND sounds positively Lavie Tidharian.

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UNHOLY LAND similarly blurs the lines between fiction and metafiction, perhaps more so than those earlier works. It’s another book about a novelist, this one a novelist named Lior Tirosh who inhabits an alternate world in which the Jewish state of “Palestina” was established in the early 20th century. Searching for a missing relative, Tirosh gets caught up in events not unlike one of the narratives in his books. Presumably, things get weirder from there.

Tachyon Publications will release Unholy Land in the U.S. in October. Below, check out the official summary and full cover, created by Sarah Anne Langton.

The author of the critically acclaimed, Campbell and World Fantasy Award-winning Central Station returns with a subversive new novel evoking Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and China Miéville’s The City and the City.

When pulp-fiction writer Lior Tirosh returns to his homeland in East Africa, much has changed. Palestina—a Jewish state established in the early 20th century—is constructing a massive border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in the capital is at a fever pitch.

While searching for his missing niece, Tirosh begins to believe he is a detective from one of his own novels. He is pursued by ruthless members of the state’s security apparatus while unearthing deadly conspiracies and impossible realities. For if it is possible for more than one Palestina to exist, the barriers between the worlds are beginning to break.

For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton