Children of Earth and Sky

Zusatztext Praise for Children of Earth and Sky *#1 Locus Bestseller for August 2016* “The lush historical tapestry serves...compelling! sympathetic characters.”— Chicago Tribune   “A new release by fantasy master Guy Gavriel Kay is always an event. His approach! which is to explore our shared humanity through a prism of fantasy and history! is unparalleled—both in the genre and outside it.”—The Huffington Post   “Worthwhile and rewarding.”— San Francisco Book Review “Kay is in masterful control of his material! and the prose is elegant. This is writing of the highest order.” — Historical Novel Society More Praise for the Novels of Guy Gavriel Kay “[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay...His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces.”— The New Yorker “History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay.”— The Washington Post Book World “Kay shows why he’s the heir to Tolkien’s tradition.”— Booklist “Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work.”—#1  New York Times  bestselling author Brandon Sanderson “A storyteller on the grandest scale.”— Time Magazine ! Canada Informationen zum Autor Guy Gavriel Kay Klappentext The bestselling author of The Fionavar Tapestry weaves a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands-where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request-and possibly to do more-and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman posing as a doctor's wife but sent by Seressa as a spy. The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he's been born to live. And farther east a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif-to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming. As these lives entwine, their fates-and those of many others-will hang in the balance when the khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world....             Chapter I                 It was with a sinking heart that the newly arrived ambassador from Seressa grasped that the Emperor Rodolfo, famously eccentric, was serious about an         experiment in court protocol.                 The emperor liked experiments, everyone knew that.                 It seemed the ambassador was to perform a triple obeisance—two separate times!—when finally invited to approach the imperial throne. This was, the very         tall official escorting him explained, to be done in the manner of those presented to Grand Khalif Gurçu in Asharias.                 It was also, the courtier added thoughtfully, how the great eastern emperors had been approached in long-ago days. Rodolfo was apparently now         interested in the effect of such formal deference, observed and noted. And since Rodolfo was heir to those august figures of the past, it did make         sense, didn’t it?                 It did not, at all, was the ambassador’s unvoiced opinion. He had no idea what this alleged effect was supposed to be.                 He smiled politely. He nodded. He adjusted his velvet robe. In the antechamber where they waited he watched as a second court official—young,<...

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• Autori: Guy Gavriel Kay
• Editore: Berkley Publishing Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780451472977
• ISBN: 978-0-451-47297-7
• Pagine: 592
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy