Lord of Emperors
Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2016
- Category
- Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143194026
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $25.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780735233256
- Publish Date
- Mar 2016
- List Price
- $22.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780061051210
- Publish Date
- Mar 2000
- List Price
- $24.00 USD
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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.
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)
