Art Nr.: 0451458265
ISBN 13: 9780451458261
B-Nr: INF1001375943
Release Year: 2001
Published by: Penguin Publishing Group
Edition: paperback
Cover: paperback
Cover Format: 200x135x21
Pages: 288
Weight: 246 g
Language: Englisch
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Warengruppe: Taschenbuch/Belletristik/Science Fiction, Fantasy
In the second novel in Guy Gavriel Kay's critically acclaimed Fionavar Tapestry, five men and women from our world must play their parts in a colossal war, as the first of all worlds confronts an ancient evil&hellip After a thousand years of imprisonment the Unraveller has broken free and frozen Fionavar in the ice of eternal winter. His terrible vengeance has begun to take its toll on mortals and demi-gods, mages and priestesses, dwarves and the Children of Light. The five brought from Earth across the tapestry of worlds must act to wake the allies Fionavar desperately needs. But no one can know if these figures out of legend have power enough to shatter the icy grip of death upon the land-or if they even want to...
Guy Gavriel Kay is the international bestselling author of numerous fantasy novels including The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, Tigana, The Last Light of the Sun, Under Heaven, River of Stars, and Children of Earth and Sky. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic, and won the World Fantasy Award for Ysabel in 2008. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.