Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay
Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay
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Children of Earth and Sky

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 19 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/10/2016


Synopsis

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. …

Reviews

Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: I adored Children of Earth and Sky. What an amazing, complex novel this is! Highly recommended for any thoughtful reader of history or fantasy. Guy Gavriel Kay writes what he likes to call “history with a quarter turn to the fantastic,” and Children of Earth......more

Goodreads review by Althea

A leisurely, beautiful almost-sort-of-fantasy set in Kay's alternate historical world. Longtime readers will recognize references here to events and characters featured in quite a few of his other books. The time period here is the (I believe) fifteenth century, and the action moves between recogniza......more