All the Seas of the World

Informationen zum Autor Guy Gavriel Kay is the international bestselling author of fourteen previous novels, including the Fionavar Tapestry series, Tigana , The Last Light of the Sun , Under Heaven , River of Stars , Children of Earth and Sky , and A Brightness Long Ago . He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic and won the World Fantasy Award for Ysabel in 2008. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. Klappentext Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky , international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature ‘quarter turn to the fantastic’ to tell a story of vengeance, power, and love.   On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small.       One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped, she is trying to chart her own course—and is bent upon revenge. Another is a seafaring merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith, a moment that never leaves him. In what follows, through a story both intimate and epic, unforgettable characters are immersed in the fierce and deadly struggles that define their time.      All the Seas of the World is a page-turning drama that also offers moving reflections on memory, fate, and the random events that can shape our lives—in the past, and today. Leseprobe CHAPTER I   The memory of home can be too far away, in time, in distance across the vastness of the earth, or of the sea.   It can fade or blur for us as the years pass. And there is often pain in that, too. In their dreams some travel back to remembered voices, sounds, scents, images. But many do not dream, or not of the place they came from. Too much loss, too old and hard a sorrow. And some who have such dreams forget them in the morning's light where they find themselves. That can be a blessing.   There will be others who cannot forget. Who wrap themselves in memories as in a heavy cloak. They will walk a street in a far city at twilight and hear a stringed instrument down a laneway, and it takes them back. They might decide to go up that lane, towards where a spill of light suggests a tavern, or perhaps someone's home with a courtyard where music is being offered at day's end.   Most often they do not. They do not do that. Perhaps it isn't, as they listen, the remembered instrument from their childhood. Nor the tune of a song their mother sang to them at bedtime after prayers. There are no orange blossoms here. No oleanders, mimosas, no jacaranda trees with blue-purple flowers. There might be fountains in this distant city, but not like the ones remembered from that time before they were forced to go away, uprooted like a tree torn from its earth.   For someone else, their memories, or the dreams pushed away at sunrise, might be very different, but just as hard. From a time, say, before they were stolen as a child from a place with other sorts of trees and flowers, but home.   There are many different ways for a home to be lost, and for the world to become defined by that loss.   There are also many different ways into a tale.   Whose voice, whose life will start it off? (Whose death?) Where are we when the ship of our story moves...

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• Autori: Guy Gavriel Kay
• Editore: Berkley Publishing Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.04.2023
• EAN: 9780593441053
• ISBN: 978-0-593-44105-3
• Pagine: 528
• Dimensioni: 153 mm x 228 mm x 27 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi