Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells. 368 pp.
A stand-alone fantasy novel that breaks a lot of standard fantasy rules. It has a non-Western setting--the cities and temples are based on Angkor Wat in Cambodia--and it featurs a middle-aged heroine with a younger man as her love interest. Wells is great at world-building, and she does it in such a way that you absorb the background and culture while you're reading about the characters, rather than bringing the whole story to a standstill while "info-dumping." One of my very favorite novels.
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