The Palace of Eros (Caro De Robertis)

WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDEN POPPY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD

'A brilliant and luminous writer' Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe

'Riveting, sublime, magical, and wildly subversive' Cristina_García, author of Dreaming in Cuban

'A natural storyteller' Washington Post

Caro De Robertis, a Uruguayan-American writer born in the UK, is the author of five previous novels including CANTORAS and THE GODS OF TANGO. In 2022, they received the Dos Passos Prize, awarded annually to an American author who "experiments with form, explores a range of voices and deserves more recognition". De Robertis is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California with their two children.