Ka, John Crowley
Ka, John Crowley
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Ka
Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

Author: John Crowley

Narrator: John Crowley

Unabridged: 15 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/24/2017

Synopsis

From award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths in the land of Ka.A Crow alone is no Crow.Dar Oakley—the first Crow in all of history with a name of his own—was born two thousand years ago. When a man learns his language, Dar finally gets the chance to tell his story. He begins his tale as a young man, and how he went down to the human underworld and got hold of the immortality meant for humans, long before Julius Caesar came into the Celtic lands; how he sailed West to America with the Irish monks searching for the Paradise of the Saints; and how he continuously went down into the land of the dead and returned. Through his adventures in Ka, the realm of Crows, and around the world, he found secrets that could change the humans’ entire way of life—and now may be the time to finally reveal them.

About John Crowley

John Crowley was born in the appropriately liminal town of Presque Isle, Maine in 1942, his father then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movie and found work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel The Deep in 1975, and his fifteenth volume of fiction, Four Freedoms, in 2009. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 2006 he was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He finds it more gratifying that almost all his work is still in print.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on November 10, 2017

Intellectually, I know that the world is unfair. Somehow, though, that knowledge doesn't make it easier to accept the fact that John Crowley remains a relatively unknown and uncelebrated author. His writing never fails to sustain me, engage me, move me (not the easiest task, frankly), and, most of a......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 04, 2017

John Crowley’s writing is so graceful and lyrical and contemplative that his novels often feel like long elegiac poems masquerading as prose fiction. His latest, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr is quite possibly the most John Crowley-esque of John Crowley novels. It is a beautiful work of art – en......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle (Reading Rampage) on February 03, 2020

I guess one of the great things about reading John Crowley is that it never goes quite how I think it will – even when I have mixed feelings about his work. It’s impossible to deny that the man is brilliant, and a very talented prose stylist; alas, sometimes, his wordy pirouettes are just a bit too......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 21, 2019

I'm conflicted about this read. On the one hand, I think, with managed expectations, this is a delightful book. Mild, thoughtful, and almost always following the PoV of a special crow through the ages. One that has died, traveled the land of the dead, come back, and lives on and on. Sometimes Dar Oak......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on November 21, 2017

[4.5 stars] Hmmm, a guy named John CROW-ley, who's not too far from the end of his natural lifespan, writes a novel about crows and death. Coincidence? I’ve appreciated animal-based fantasy novels over the years (e.g. Watership Down), and this one sounded like it had some literary qualities. It’s pro......more

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