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Fiction Literary

Lord of Emperors

Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic

by (author) Guy Gavriel Kay

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Oct 2016
Category
Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143194026
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $25.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780735233256
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $22.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780061051210
    Publish Date
    Mar 2000
    List Price
    $24.00 USD
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780061020025
    Publish Date
    Feb 2001
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143174592
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $13.5

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Description

In this concluding volume of the two-part Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay brilliantly merges his dramatic homage to Byzantine with a moving meditation on art and power, and the eternal human struggle to leave a legacy.

Sarantium is the golden city: holy to the faithful, jewel of the world. The western mosaicist Crispin has arrived in the glittering capital to begin work inside a grand sanctuary. Confronting the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny, he discovers that no one can withdraw from the dangerous affairs of court and city. For Rustem, a physician from the east, a fateful moment as he saves the life of his own king sends him on a course toward the opulence of Sarantium. Reluctantly, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue--to discover that his own path will have to go far beyond that of a healer.

About the author

 

GUY GAVRIEL KAY is an international bestselling author. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic, is a two-time winner of the Aurora Award, and won the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Ysabel, a #1 bestseller in Canada. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Visit his Canadian website at www.guygavrielkay.ca and his authorized international website at www.brightweavings.com.

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Editorial Reviews

"Powerfully written and compulsively readable."--Maclean's

"A fantastic story, touched with magic.... Lord of Emperors is a feast of riches."--The Star Phoenix

"Some of the finest writing to arise in the last decade."--The Vancouver Sun

"A storyteller on the grandest scale.... Kay's prose is surefooted and poetic."--Time (Canada)