- Taschenbuch: 560 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Voyager (5. Januar 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061059900
- ISBN-13: 978-0061059902
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,8 x 9,9 x 3,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.1 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (52 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 511.412 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Sailing to Sarantium is a small story. Its hero, Crispin, is unassuming as heroes go. He's a skilled mosaicist, an artist who makes pictures with decorative tiles, and responds to a request from a distant emperor to travel to the imperial capital and work on the new sanctuary there. Hardly the makings of high adventure. But then again, Guy Gavriel Kay could write about a peasant going to pick up a pail of water and you'd probably hang on every word.
If you don't know Kay, you should. His pedigree is impeccable, starting with a well-loved fantasy debut, the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road), and a compilation he did with Christopher Tolkien called The Silmarillion. Sailing to Sarantium, the first half of the Sarantine Mosaic series, evokes his other historical fantasy titles, such as A Song for Arbonne and The Lions of Al-Rassan, and is a well-researched analog to the Byzantine Empire and fifth-century Europe--with all its political and religious machinations.
Despite its seemingly prosaic cast and quest, Sailing to Sarantium is a charmer, another Kay classic. As usual, the character descriptions are subtle and precise--the mosaicist, Crispin, is a shrewd, irascible, and intensely likable man who is fiercely devoted to his art but troubled by guilt and loss. Reluctantly surrendering to events, he agrees to travel to Sarantium to work for the emperor. ("Sailing to Sarantium," we learn, is an expression synonymous with embracing great change.) As Crispin moves from roadside quarrels to palace intrigue, Kay gracefully shifts perspective from character to character, moving forward and backward in time and giving a rich sense of the world through the eyes of soldiers, slaves, and senators. --Paul Hughes -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The title page imparts that this is "Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic." Kay has embarked on yet another fantasy saga, set several centuries earlier in the same world as his masterpiece, The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995). The historically knowledgeable will recognize that Sarantium essentially equals Byzantium during the reign of Justinian and Theodora, who appear under other names, along with Belisarius, Procopius, Hagia Sophia, the Visigoths--the whole kit and caboodle. The protagonist is a mosaicist from Rhodius (Visigothic Rome) who travels to Sarantium to work on the Great Temple (i.e., Hagia Sophia) because he has lost his family in the plague and feels he has nothing more to lose should Sarantium change him. The characterization is up to Kay's usual high standard, and he has adapted real-world history so well for his world-building purposes that even those who know what he is borrowing will admire it. A good book that bodes very well for the series it inaugurates. Roland Green
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The Imperial Post, along with most of the civil positions in the Sarantine Empire after Valerius I died and his nephew, having renamed himself appropriately, took the Golden Throne, was under the hegemony of the Master of Offices. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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The Imperial Post, along with most of the civil positions in the Sarantine Empire after Valerius I died and his nephew, having renamed himself appropriately, took the Golden Throne, was under the hegemony of the Master of Offices. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Kay writes the best heroic fantasy ever. One might argue that Tolkein remains the best heroic fantasist, but Tolkein's stories drag in places (say, in the middle bits of The Two Towers). All of Kay's novels except the Fionavar Tapestry have been set in worlds based on actual history, which means that they come out a lot more detailed and realistic than most worlds created from whole cloth. (Again, one might argue that there's something nobler about working from scratch; but I think the results speak for themselves. And it's not as if Kay's approach were a cop-out; good research is hard work.)
Sailing to Sarantium is labelled, "Book One of She Sarantine Mosaic", which I presume is meant to be a trilogy. It's a good story in its own right, but it spends most of its attention on exposition, and does a marvelous job. Intrigue, gods, economics, art...a rich, well, mosaic of all the facets that make up a world. It's done a great job of making me hungry for the next book of the trilogy.
Interestingly enough, it's set in the same world as The Lions of Al-Rassan, but several hundred years earlier, before the time of Ashar (though there are hints that it might not be too long before).
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Sailing to Sarantium is another masterful book from Guy Gavriel Kay. Set in the same world as The Lions of Al-Rassan (my personal favorite of all his works), it has more overt magic than Lions, which should satisfy many readers. The primary emphasis is still on the elaborate character deveopment at which Kay excels, and on interweaving political intrigues with thought-provoking questions on religious beliefs. While Sailing to Sarantium is not for those who are interested in non-stop action or huge battles, Kay creates a vibrant world populated with highly believable characters. The arts have always played a large role in Kay's books (poetry in Song for Arbonne and Lions of Al-Rassan; song in Tigana and the Fionavar Tapestry), and this is no exception. The minor details of creating a mosaic are brought to life with loving care and provide a revealing insight into an artist's soul. I am anxiously awaiting the next two installments!
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A book well written with interesting characters, but the story itself is Byzanz at the time of Justianian and Theodora. All you had to do is change the names. I've already read "Ein Kampf um Rom" of Felix Dahn and another one from Gillian Bradshaw and so I know the plot all along. No really new things here. Kay shapes a lot of his books around real history, and I've found them(especially "A Song for Arbonne")wonderful, but this is to much of the old theme with to little differences. I seem to know the whole plot in advance. So only 3 stars ...
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yegads, this book sucketh muchly!
Me again, read my review of July 6th...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von Janet Wilson
Let's revive public flogging in the town square....
Oh man, is it AWFUL. The prose is absolutely leaden and screamingly hackneyed...I should have known I was in trouble when, in the first 10 pages, about six thousand... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juli 2000 von Janet Wilson
Loved it, can't wait to read the next one
This is the third novel I've read by Kay. The first two were "Tigana" and "A Song for Arbonne" (which was one of the better books I've read in a long time, in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juli 2000 von Robin P. Flynn
Read Parts 1 & 2 together for maximum effect
Kay is a great writer. When I finished part 2 (I read the combined edition) there was a tear in my eye - exactly what happened the last time I read one of his works. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Juni 2000 von ED Denson
Luscious language, lazy storyteller
I have such mixed feelings about this book. It's language is intoxicating, subtle, and quite pleasurable to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Mai 2000 von Paul Brown
A promising first book of a trilogy
Guy Gavriel Kay again crafts a believable and intriging world for this series of books. The characters themselves are first rate, though the pacing could be a bit better. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von James M. Carstensen
Excellent new novel from one of fantasy's major talents
Guy Gavriel Kay is one of my favorite fantasy authors, because he is able to portray some of the most believable characters I've ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. April 2000 von Stefan
Uneven Compared To Tigana, Arbonne, And Lions of Al-Rassan
I would have liked to have given this work higher praise, and based solely upon the prologue and second section of the work could have. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Excellent
This is the first novel by Guy Gavriel Kay that I have read, and I loved it. Some of the passages are beautifully written, and the novel is worth reading just for them. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. März 2000 von Seth Armstrong
A solid start.
I had some mixed feelings when I found that GGK's newest book was set in a Byzantine-parallel world. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Februar 2000 von Steven Walker
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