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Sailing to Sarantium

(Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1)

By Guy Gavriel Kay

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780061059902

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Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist.

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Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist.

In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen's seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist's treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will encounter a great beast from the mythic past,and in robbing the zubir of its prize he wins a woman's devotion and a man's loyalty--and loses a gift he didn't know he had until it was gone.

Once in this city ruled by intrigue and violence, he must find his own source of power. Struggling to deal with the dangers and seductive lures of the men and woman around him, Crispin does discover it, in a most unusual place--high on the scaffolding of the greatest artwork ever imagined....

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  • Sailing to Sarantium: Volume One of the Sarantine Mosaic

    by Guy Gavriel Kay In Ontario fantasist Guy Gavriel Kay’s seventh novel, Sailing to Sarantium, the title refers to reaching the civilized heart of an extensive empire in an age of hippodromes and bathhouses. Metaphorically, these sails power the vess ... (read full critics)

    quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • Sailing to Sarantium

    Sailing to Sarantium is the first book of Guy Gavriel Kay's new two-part series, The Sarantine Mosaic. It has the unusual distinction of having been voted #5 on the SF Site's "Best SF and Fantasy Books of 1998" despite not yet having been released in ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  • A good read

    A solid GGK book, when read with its sequel. The Sarantine mosaic delves into Byzantine history, which is my chosen subject and so dangerous for me to read. However, he does well enough with it that I had no urge to argue a point as I so often do with historical fiction. The mystical elements of thi ... (continue)

    A solid GGK book, when read with its sequel. The Sarantine mosaic delves into Byzantine history, which is my chosen subject and so dangerous for me to read. However, he does well enough with it that I had no urge to argue a point as I so often do with historical fiction. The mystical elements of this one blended particularly well with the historical.

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 560 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0061059900
  • ISBN-13: 9780061059902
  • Publisher: Eos
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2000
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
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