CHILDREN OF EARTH AND SKY
The extraordinary all-new epic fantasy from the beloved author of TIGANA.
Guy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels UNDER HEAVEN and RIVER OF STARS, once again visits a world that evokes one that existed in our own past, this time the tumultuous period of Renaissance Europe-a world on the verge of war, where ordinary lives play out in the grand scheme of kingdoms colliding.
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 beautiful oman, posing as a doctor's wife in her role of a spy.
The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the clever younger son of a merchant family -with ambivalence 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...
Edad recomendada: Adultos
KAY GUY GAVRIEL
Guy Gavriel Kay Weyburn, Saskatchewan, 7 de noviembre de 1954 es un escritor canadiense de literatura fantástica. Kay estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Manitoba y más tarde Derecho en la Universidad de Toronto. En su juventud colaboró con Christopher Tolkien en la edición de El Silmarillion de J.R.R. Tolkien en Oxford, experiencia que marcó su carrera literaria. Autor de quince novelas y un libro de poesía, sus obras se ambientan en mundos ficticios inspirados en contextos históricos reales, como Bizancio o la península ibérica medieval. Entre sus títulos más reconocidos figuran Tigana, El árbol del verano y Ysabel. Ha recibido premios como el Aurora y el Mundial de Fantasía.
