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Ysabel
Ned Marriner is in France with his father, a celebrated photographer shooting the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. While exploring the cathedral, Ned meets Kate, an American exchange student with a deep knowledge of the area's history. But even Kate is at a loss when she and Ned surprise a scar-faced stranger, wearing a leather jacket and carrying a knife. "I think you ought to go now," he tells them. "You have blundered into a corner of a very old story..."
In this ancient place, where the borders between the living and the long-dead are thin, Ned and his family are about to be drawn into a haunted story, as mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, changing--and claiming--lives.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Feb 5th, 2008
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.94in - 6.00in - 0.92in - 1.01lb
- EAN: 9780451461902
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Fantasy - Paranormal• Action & Adventure
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What people are saying
Professor & Director @FDU_Press ¶ President @DurrellSociety ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful
90) Guy Gavriel Kay's *Ysabel* was a book in a specific moment. His keep landing that way for me, & have for years. I don't know why, but it makes them stick… This one felt more like a romp, but I enjoyed it & it occupied me at a tricky moment. https://t.co/nuagFjLCOH
Praise for this book
"Will enthrall mainstream as well as fantasy readers."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Ysabel is beyond honed. It reads like a perfectly cut jewel...It is very much like a great classic Hollywood film."--Science Fiction Weekly
"[Kay] turns out quality work every time. Ysabel is another testament to his storytelling skill."--The Davis Enterprise
"Outstanding characters, folklore, and action add up to another Kay must-read."--Booklist
"Kay constructs a suspenseful narrative, and he uses the atmosphere of Provence to good effect."--The Toronto Star
"Encapsulates my experience of reading Kay's work--that the sense of loss experienced when his world slips away and his tale is told will be profound, but the beauty of the experience is worth that loss."--Fantasy & Science Fiction
More Praise for the Novels of Guy Gavriel Kay
"[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay...His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces."--The New Yorker
"History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay."--The Washington Post Book World
"Kay shows why he's the heir to Tolkien's tradition."--Booklist
"Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson
"A storyteller on the grandest scale."--Time Magazine, Canada
What people are saying
Professor & Director @FDU_Press ¶ President @DurrellSociety ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful
90) Guy Gavriel Kay's *Ysabel* was a book in a specific moment. His keep landing that way for me, & have for years. I don't know why, but it makes them stick… This one felt more like a romp, but I enjoyed it & it occupied me at a tricky moment. https://t.co/nuagFjLCOH
