Ysabel

Guy Gavriel Kay

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ROC
01 February 2008

Fantasy; Celtic; Europe; Magic; Mythological Creatures, People & Places; Magic; World Fantasy Award

The multiple award-winning fantasy author of The Fionavar Tapestry brings his extraordinary imagination to a tale of mythic figures in contemporary times...

Ned Marriner is in France with his father, a celebrated photographer shooting the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. While exploring the cathedral, Ned meets Kate, an American exchange student with a deep knowledge of the area’s history. But even Kate is at a loss when she and Ned surprise a scar-faced stranger, wearing a leather jacket and carrying a knife. “I think you ought to go now,” he tells them. “You have blundered into a corner of a very old story...”

In this ancient place, where the borders between the living and the long-dead are thin, Ned and his family are about to be drawn into a haunted story, as mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, changing—and claiming—lives.

By: Guy Gavriel Kay
Imprint: ROC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 448g
ISBN: 9780451461902
ISBN 10: 0451461908
Pages: 421
Publication Date: 01 February 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Ysabel

Praise for Ysabel Stylish...vivid and satisfying with moments of sublime eeriness. --Washington Post Evocative writing ... fascinating characters ... will enthrall mainstream as well as fantasy readers. --Publisher's Weekly Ysabel is the child of Kay's long love affair with Provence, the sunny, haunted region in the south of France which has enspelled him as it has so many... Kay knows this world intimately, and he presents it with a fresh, deft hand...everything fits. --Locus 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