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Children of earth and sky / Guy Gavriel Kay.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.K39 C48 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kay, Guy Gavriel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Voyages and travels.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Historical fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Historical fiction.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 571 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New American Library, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky, set in 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 ..."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kay, Guy Gavriel, author. Children of earth and sky.
- ISBN:
- 9780451472960
- 0451472969
- OCLC:
- 934382790
- Publisher Number:
- 99971266835
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