The Years of Rice and Salt

Overview:

  • Title: The Years of Rice and Salt
  • Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Year: 2002
  • ISBN-10: 0553109200
  • Publisher: Bantam Books
  • Price: $25.95
  • Pages: 658
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Years of Rice and Salt
  • Notes:
    • "A Bantam Book / March 2002"
    • Second printing by number line (BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2)
    • Book is divided into 10 parts. Each part starts with a map by Jeffrey L. Ward.
    • "The Sanskrit poems on pages 89 and 646 are adapted from Sanskrit Love Poetry, translated by W.S. Merwin and J.M. Masson."
    • "The indented paragraphs on pages 546 and 547 are adapted from essays by the Mauritanian Zainaba and by the Egyptian Amina Said, reprinted in Opening the Gates, edited by Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke."
    • Jacket illustration by Alan Ayers. Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll.
    • Price in Canada C$38.95
    • Verified copy signed by Robinson in May 2002, so printed between March and May 2002.