Sailing to Sarantium
Author:
Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN:
9780743450096
Book 1 of the Sarantine Mosiac
The Sarantine Empire is beset by enemies, but the Emperor Valerius II is determined to win Rhodias, Western cradle of the empire, back from the barbarians who overran it - and also to build the greatest Sanctuary to the god Jad ever created.
Into this maelstrom steps Crispin, a master mosaicist who observes the power of the older gods at first hand, even as he journeys to fulfil the emperor's command. He will find colour, death and deadly politics at his elbow...
Guy Gavriel Kay continues to marry history with high fantasy in a setting that evokes - and vividly recaptures - the glamour, danger and decadence of the Byzantine empire.
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