Tigana
Published on 3. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
816 pages
978-0-00-734204-4 (ISBN)
Description
With this rich, masterfully written extravaganza of myth and magic, the internationally acclaimed author of THE FIONAVAR TAPESTRY trilogy has created an epic that will forever change the boundaries of fantasy fiction.
Set in a beleaguered land caught in a web of tyranny, Tigana is the deeply moving story of a people struggling to be free. A people so cursed by the dark sorceries of the tyrant King Brandin that even the very name of their once beautiful land cannot be spoken or remembered.
But not everyone has forgotten. A handful of men and women, driven by love, hope and pride, set in motion the dangerous quest for freedom and bring back to the world the lost brightness of an obliterated name: Tigana.
Set in a beleaguered land caught in a web of tyranny, Tigana is the deeply moving story of a people struggling to be free. A people so cursed by the dark sorceries of the tyrant King Brandin that even the very name of their once beautiful land cannot be spoken or remembered.
But not everyone has forgotten. A handful of men and women, driven by love, hope and pride, set in motion the dangerous quest for freedom and bring back to the world the lost brightness of an obliterated name: Tigana.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for TIGANA:'Flair, glamour and unstudied romance' Sunday Express
'An enchanting, colourful fantasy adventure' Time Out
'A huge book, packed with action, I enjoyed it all' The Times
'[Tigana] is so perfect I don't think I could bear it if Kay wrote a sequel' Interzone
'One of the best fantasy novels I have read' Anne McCaffery
'Kay shows why he's the heir to Tolkien's tradition' Booklist
'A richly sensuous fantasy world, full of evocative history, religions, folklore, local customs, and a magical rites...a bravura performance, nearly impossible to put down' Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Guy Gavriel Kay:
'Kay has delievered such a magnificent conclusion - I can't praise it enough. THE FIONAVAR TAPESTRY will be read and reread for many years to com' Fantasy Review
'Packed with action' The Times
'A brilliant and complex portrayal of good and evil' Publishers Weekly
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 55 mm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-734204-4 (9780007342044)
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Person
Guy Gavriel Kay was born and raised in Canada. In 1974-5 he spent a year in Oxford assisting Christopher Tolkien in his editorial construction of J R R Tolkien's posthumously published THE SILMARILLION. He took a law degree at the University of Toronto on his return to Canada and was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1981. Guy Gavriel Kay lives in Toronto