A Song for Arbonne - Couverture rigide

Kay, Guy Gavriel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0002240629 ISBN 13 : 9780002240628

Editeur : Collins, 1992

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Praise for A Song for Arbonne

"One of those books you wish would never end. A thoughtful, literate adventure filled with rich details and vivid characters, high drama and graceful prose."--San Francisco Chronicle
 
"Rarely has a book come along that fulfils on so many levels...Kay skillfully and lyrically paints a portrait of a land and the human hearts that inhabit it."--The Palm Beach Post
 
"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


Praise for the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay
 
“[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay... His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces.”--The New Yorker
 
“History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay.”--The Washington Post Book World
 
“Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work.”--#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson
 
"A storyteller on the grandest scale."--Time Magazine, Canada

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From the renowned author of Children of Earth and Sky, Tigana, and The Lions of Al-Rassan

For the Northern mercenary called Blaise, it began with the death of a king and betrayal in the form of a peace treaty. Wandering in self-imposed exile, he would journey to the Kingdom of Arbonne, where the Court of Love made warriors bow to troubadours, and a well-sung ballad was valued as highly as a skillfully swung sword. But Arbonne was a troubled realm, torn by an ancient feud between its two most powerful dukes and coveted as a prize by the land in which Blaise himself had grown to manhood. And no one—except perhaps Arbonne’s goddess—could forsee that one Northern mercenary might become the key to Arbonne’s destiny....

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Collins
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0002240629
• ISBN 13: 9780002240628
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400