Vera Nazarian left the former Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War as a refugee at the age of eight and arrived in the United States a month before her 10th birthday by way of Lebanon, Greece, and Italy. She sold her first short story at the age of 17 and since then has published numerous works of short fiction in anthologies and magazines such as the Sword and Sorceress and Darkover series edited by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, and has seen her work translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, and Hungarian.

She is an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and recently made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed mythic fantasy DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE.

LORDS OF RAINBOW is her second novel. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The height of imagination, Jul 13 2004

By	Susan Franzblau (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Lords of Rainbow (Hardcover)

In Lords of Rainbow Vera Nazarian takes a difficult concept and renders it beautifully. In a world without color, she captures how color affects our perception and character. I was especially struck by the richness of character and description as well as its being a damn good read.

I recommend this for all thinking readers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A stylish fantasy that rings true, Jun 16 2004

By	Maren Henry (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lords of Rainbow (Hardcover)

This stylish fantasy has an intriguing premise: what if there were a world without color? But it takes more than a great idea to make a great novel; it takes fully-realized characters, rich imagery, a world with depth to explore, and, most of all, insight into what we as humans are and what we can be. LORDS OF RAINBOW fulfills its promises and is, quite simply, a great read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another treat from Nazarian, April 11 2003

By	"gofalus" (Zimiamvia) - See all my reviews

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In this book, which is structured more along the lines of a conventional novel than the equally mesmerizing Dreams of the Compass Rose, Vera Nazarian has created something wholly her own, a narrative voice and an invented realm that are a striking rendering of her unique authorial heart. This is about as far as you can get from regurgitated genre. It's got the exciting battles and the intricate plotting and the sense of enchantment--it doesn't stint on any of the things that we love in fantasy--but it also has a cutting depth of insight into character, and an intriguing eroticism (sensual, sexual, and aesthetic), and a delicious style unlike anything else available right now. It's really the perfect novel for just this point in time: a spicy exotic new flavor for the jaded fantasy palate, but in no way offputting for those who love what's out there and crave more.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Rainbow of a Novel
Nazarian seems to be hitting her stride with this, her second novel. The story is more coherent than her first, the prose more under control, while still giving the reader little... Read more

Published on April 1 2003