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| Title | : | Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic #1) |
| Author | : | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | November 4th 2002 by Earthlight (first published September 7th 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Fantasy |
Guy Gavriel Kay
Paperback | Pages: 448 pages Rating: 4.16 | 12427 Users | 564 Reviews
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Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive-and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.
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| Original Title: | Sailing to Sarantium |
| ISBN: | 0743450094 (ISBN13: 9780743450096) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Sarantine Mosaic #1 |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1999), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2001), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (1999) |
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Ratings: 4.16 From 12427 Users | 564 ReviewsWrite Up Based On Books Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic #1)
This was my first foray into historical fantasy, unless I count the Strategos series of Gordon Doherty, which had a bit of fantasy. I enjoy reading about the Byzantine Empire. I chose this one because of the Byzantine [very thinly-disguised] setting; it was close enough to the real Byzantine Empire for me to make parallels. For much of this book I rated it a 4, but after 3/4 through, I had to lower my rating: partly because of sad developments in the story, but partly because of the excessiveI have a love-hate relationship with Kays work: loved Tigana, really liked Song for Arbonne, put Lions of Al-Rassan down in disgust halfway through. (Last Light of the Sun is the only one Ive been ambivalent about so far.) Maybe this book is too similar to Lions for me--and most people seem to love Lions (if you do, you might want to ignore this review). Or maybe Ive just read too much Kay.At any rate, this book is about Crispin, a mosaicist who travels to Sarantium (a very thinly disguised
I knew going into it that this would feel incomplete as a story. Many reviews have said that it needs to be read in conjunction with its sequel. I think the novel definitely suffers from lack of a climax towards the end and a pace that seems too slow in places. Having said that, I really enjoyed the book. I'm a big fan of historical fiction set in Roman times and although this is historical fantasy, the world felt familiar. A rich tapestry has been woven with many characters. I hope no more are
I found this book a bit of a struggle to read until I came to the last third of the book, which seemed to fly by quickly and overall made the book more enjoyable. I was more engaged in the story once more political intrigue was involved and most of our characters were in Sarantium. Well worth reading, especially if you like historical fantasy novels.
To say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something too vast for his capacity.Caius Crispus is a man, a mosaicist by trade, who has been living under the shadow of grief after losing his wife and two daughters to the Plague. His life is only about his work now. The decision of an emperor in a neighboring country to
Within this book there is a metaphor that I quite liked. This metaphor happens to be the title of this book. Sailing to Sarantium is a metaphor used brilliantly during the course of the novel. It means that somebody has taken a change, braved to do something, changed his life in a drastic way. The metaphor does make sense because a man that is sailing to capital may be changing his life. Especially when that capital happens to be the centre of power and the place of many wonders. I can't say
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