This Tuesday, the book by Guy Gavriel Kay has its premiere.
The following description is from the publisher:
In the world of Europe in the Renaissance era, saturated with conflicts and dramas, on the border, where empires and religions collide, the fate of the world is at stake …
A young woman sets out from Senjan, a notorious pirate town, to seek revenge for the loss of her family. In the same spring, two very different people set out from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoons: a young painter who goes to the dangerous East to paint a portrait of him at the request of the great Caliph, and an angry woman pretending to be a doctor’s wife, but sent by Seressa on a spy mission.
The merchant ship they are on board is commanded by a good-quality younger son of a merchant’s family, haunted by doubts about his destined life. Still further east, a boy is training to be a soldier for glory in the war that is imminent upon him. Their fates are intertwined, and their lives hang in the balance, because the caliph sends a large army to occupy a mighty fortress, which is the gateway to the Western world …