A portrait of doomed lovers. I read this a while back, and my memories of it are ink-washed rather than photorealistic. Romance, tragedy, magic, and an alien world that first looks like sword-and-sorcery dustbowl but which upon deep reading opens into something much weirder. All written in a singular voice that flows between archaic and musical, as if the rap styling of 20th/21st C Earth were a foundational rhetoric for language in the far future.