A Song for Arbonne, Guy Gavriel Kay
A Song for Arbonne, Guy Gavriel Kay
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A Song for Arbonne

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrator: Euan Morton

Unabridged: 19 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

From the critically-acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry comes an epic fantasy novel of love, both courtly and forbidden, and two kingdoms endlessly opposed …

Blaise of Gorhaut is a warrior. He fought for his king and country, until the king died with an arrow in his eye at the battle of Iersen Bridge, and a dishonorable treaty ceded a good part of his country to foreign hands. He has broken relations with his father, adviser to the king of Gorhaut, and abandoned the use of his family name.

Now, Blaise is a mercenary. He never expected to work for the lords of Arbonne, the warm, fertile lands south of Gorhaut, whose people praise the love of women—they even worship a goddess, instead of the god. They are a soft people, or so he thought. But for all their nonsense about love, their troubadours and songs, they will fight for their country, when invasion comes from the north.

“Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence … this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world … a vivid world of love and music, magic and death.”—Publishers Weekly

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mayim on October 09, 2017

Artisans, it seems, are very important for Kay. Tigana had musicians, Sarantine duology a mosaicist as the main protagonist, in Arbonne, fashioned after the medieval Provence and Occitania, troubadours are in the middle of things (along with joglars and trobairitz, that is female performers). With t......more

Goodreads review by Jake on February 23, 2025

I am back to historical based GGK works, and this time a much less talked about book. Despite it's lack of fame A Song For Arbonne was still brilliant. This is a book set in a fantasy version medieval version of France. It is largely focused on an upcoming conflict between Gorhaut and Arbonne, which a......more

Goodreads review by Benghis on February 24, 2024

Wow. I don't know what to say. I don't have the right words. Guy Gavriel Kay had them all though. This may be the most beautiful single read of my life. In one standalone book I feel like I went on a journey the likes of which I usually can only experience over the course of a long series, and not e......more

Goodreads review by Choko on October 06, 2017

*** 4.75 *** A Buddy Read with the Fantasy Buddy Reads Group, because we love G. G. Kay! Have you ever read a book and felt completely inadequate to write a review for it? Not that the book was that overwhelming in scope or plot lines, nor because it tackled some deep philosophical issues whose gravit......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on February 15, 2010

Insert rant about the many reasons why I really like a lot of Kay's early work here.......more