A Brightness Long Ago

A Brightness Long Ago

International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition.

In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling countâ€”and soon learned why that man was knownÂ as the Beast.

Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn nightâ€”intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of dangerâ€”and freedom. Which is how she encounters Danio in a perilous time and place.

Vivid figures share the unfolding story. Among them: a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a powerful religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting all these lives and many more, two larger-than-life mercenary commanders, lifelong adversaries, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance.

A Brightness Long Ago offers both compelling drama and deeply moving reflections on the nature of memory, the choices we make in life, and the role played by the turning of Fortune's wheel.
Country USA
Brand Berkley
Manufacturer Berkley
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-05-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780451472984

Country	USA
Brand	Berkley
Manufacturer	Berkley
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-05-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780451472984

A Brightness Long Ago

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