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On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small.
One of those arriving at that beach is a woman abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having escaped, she is trying to chart her own course—and is bent upon revenge. Another is a seafaring merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith, a moment that never leaves him. In what follows, through a story both intimate and epic, unforgettable characters are immersed in the fierce and deadly struggles that define their time.
All the Seas of the World is a page-turning drama that also offers moving reflections on memory, fate, and the random events that can shape our lives—in the past, and today.
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- ISBN: 9780593441060
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- ISBN: 9780593441060
- File size: 2607 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from March 28, 2022
World Fantasy Award winner Kay sets another outstanding fantasy in the Renaissance-like universe previously visited in Children of Earth and Sky and A Brightness Long Ago, offering a mosaic of captivating story lines within a mesmerizing narrative frame. The sections are linked by the omniscient narrator’s observation that “there are many different ways for a home to be lost, and for the world to become defined by that loss” and musings on the inherent subjectivity of storytelling. The first tale, for example, seemingly begins where it does because of this storyteller’s random observation of “a ship in the night, sailing without lights.” Aboard this vessel is Nadia bint Dhiyan, who, with no home to return to, is bent on carrying out an assassination—though her plan does not unfold as she intends. Other threads, which feature a captive diplomat and the head of a ruling council overseeing a spy network needed to maintain his city-state’s trade, similarly explore family, memory, and belonging. Kay constructs a rich world that easily draws readers in. Historical fantasy fans will be wowed. Agent: John Silbersack, Bent Agency. -
May 1, 2022
International best-selling author Kay (A Brightness Long Ago, 2019) returns to his richly drawn fantasy world resembling fifteenth-century Europe, serving readers a suspenseful story of war, love, trauma, religion, sabotage, death, and friendship. Rafel and Nadia work together first as seafaring merchants and corsairs, then as something else entirely when fateful choices send them careening down a path of violence, money, and power. Rafel and Nadia's story tangles with many flawed characters, and each adds value. The characters also serve the impressive purpose of reminding the reader that even if characters are just passing through this story, they have their own complicated stories to tell of tragedy, happiness, humor, and love. Depending on what the characters or settings need, Kay will jump between first and third person, past and present tense, and into the minds of different characters' thoughts, feelings, and choices--all in the same chapter. This is an immersive reading experience; readers will taste the dust in their mouths, see the high seas from the deck of a merchant ship, feel the bustle of the city market. What results is necessary sustenance for the starving reader. A masterpiece from a master of the craft.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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