Guy Gavriel Kay

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 count--and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast. Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn night--intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of danger--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.

'The greatest living author of epic fantasy' - Brandon Sanderson 'The finest in his field' - Tor.com 'Guy Gavriel Kay's A Brightness Long Ago is a masterpiece; perhaps the finest work of one of the world's greatest living storytellers' - Fantasy Book Review ***One of Goodreads' Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2019*** Internationally bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy, with an extraordinary cast of characters. 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, though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count - and soon learned why that man was known as The Beast. Danio's fate changed the moment he recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one night - intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen a life of danger - and freedom - instead. Other vivid figures share the a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting these lives and many more, two mercenary commanders, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance. Further praise for Guy Gavriel Kay 'Contemporary fiction's finest fantasist' Tor.com 'History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay' Washington Post 'One of the (if not the) premiere fantasists of our time' The Financial Times 'Compulsively readable . . . Kay is a global phenomenon . . . a storyteller on the grandest scale' Time Magazine (Canada)

Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky , international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature ‘quarter turn to the fantastic’ to tell a story of vengeance, power, and love.   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.

Einst galt Xi'an als schönste Stadt der zivilisierten Welt, der Kaiserhof als Hort des Luxus und der Kultur. Doch seit Kitai in weiten Teilen an die Barbaren aus dem Norden gefallen ist, herrscht Angst auf den Straßen, und das Heulen der Wölfe hallt durch verfallene Gemäuer. Nur einem Mann scheint es möglich, das Reich der Mitte wieder zu neuer Größe zu führen: Ren Daiyan, Heerführer, ehemaliger Geächteter, Bogenschütze von fast mythischer Gestalt. An seiner Seite: die geheimnisvolle Lin Shan, vielleicht die klügste, auf jeden Fall aber die faszinierendste Frau ihrer Zeit ...

Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world. The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes, the noble troubador Bertran de Talair and Urte de Miraval, over long-dead Aelis, lover of one, wife of the other and once heir to the country's throne. To the north lies militaristic Gorhaut, whose inhabitants worship the militant god Corannos and are ruled by corrupt, womanizing King Ademar. His chief advisor, the high priest of Corannos, is determined to eradicate the worship of a female deity, whose followers live to the south. Into this cauldron of brewing disaster comes the mysterious Gorhaut mercenary Blaise, who takes service with Bertran and averts an attempt on his life. The revelation of Blaise's lineage and a claim for sanctuary by his sister-in-law sets the stage for a brutal clash between the two cultures. Intertwined is the tale of a young woman troubadour whose role suggests the sweep of the drama to come.

Before Guy Gavriel Kay became known for his groundbreaking works of speculative fiction he was an accomplished poet, his work appearing in major literary journals such as The Antigonish Review and Prism . Through the years, while writing his dramatic international bestsellers, Kay has continued to quietly explore the paths and boundaries of poetry as well. Now for the first time, Guy Gavriel Kay's poetry has been gathered and selected for publication. Readers of contemporary poetry will be captivated by the exquisite craft and power of these poems. Some are ironic and austere, slyly tracing the interplay of writer and world, present and past; others are sensual, even erotic, charting the mercurial but abiding nature of passion-in love, in language, in history.

The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands—where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request—and possibly to do more—and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor’s wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he’s been born to live. And farther east a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif—to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming. As these lives entwine, their fates—and those of many others—will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world…

Dal piccolo porto fortificato di Senjan, famigerato covo di pirati, Danica Gradek, una strana ragazza, parte per vendicare la famiglia perduta; intanto, dalla ricca repubblica lagunare di Seressa giungono due persone molto diverse: Pero Villani, un pittore inviato presso il gran algalif per dipingerne il ritratto (ma forse non solo per quello), e Leonora, una donna determinata e intelligente che non è chi dice di essere. Entrambi sono a bordo del vascello di Marin Djivo, mercante originario dell'orgogliosa città-stato di Dubrava, che accompagnerà il pittore nella sua rischiosa missione in Oriente, là dove un adolescente si sta addestrando per entrare a far parte della fanteria scelta dell'algalif e coprirsi di gloria in una guerra che ormai tutti sentono vicina. Nelle vaste terre che si stendono tra la città d'argento dell'Ovest, sognante sulla sua laguna, e la città d'oro dell'Est, cinta di triplici mura, tutti saranno messi alla prova. Quando le loro strade - e quelle di molti altri personaggi - si incroceranno, la storia cambierà. "Figli di terra e cielo" è un'epica sontuosa che fonde fantasy e romanzo storico, realtà e immaginazione, sullo sfondo di un affascinante spaziotempo alternativo: allucinato affresco di vicende remote già note alla tumultuosa Europa e alla rutilante Asia del Rinascimento. Giacché qui ogni riferimento a fatti e circostanze non è, a ben vedere, affatto casuale.

»250 sardianische Pferde, Geschöpfe von unvergleichlicher Schönheit und Seltenheit!« Als der Kriegermönch und Gelehrte Shen Tai für seine Heldentaten von der Jadeprinzessin des Nachbarreiches belohnt wird, macht ihn das überaus großzügige und gefährliche Geschenk auf einen Schlag zu einem der mächtigsten Männer im Reich der Mitte. Die Herrschenden von Kitai – eine Fantasy-Version des Chinas der Tang-Dynastie – wollen jedoch keinen neuen Konkurrenten neben sich dulden und senden Mörder aus, um Shen Tai aus dem Weg zu räumen. Nach einem ersten Attentatsversuch beschließt Shen Tai, in die Hauptstadt zu reisen, um die Pferde dem Kaiser zum Geschenk zu machen. Begleitet wird er von der jungen Kriegerin Wen Song, die geschworen hat, ihn mit ihrem Leben zu beschützen, und dem berühmten Dichter und Trunkenbold Sima Zian, der seinem jungen Freund mit Rat und Tat zur Seite steht. Die Gefährten erwartet eine abenteuerliche und gefährliche Reise, auf der sich das Schicksal des Reiches entscheiden wird.

Cinque studenti canadesi vengono trasportati da un potente mago nel "primo di tutti i mondi", Fionavar, per lottare contro Rakoth Maugrim il Distruttore, sfuggito alla sua millenaria prigionia. Dall'erede di Tolkien, una grandiosa trilogia, un grande classico dell'High fantasy contemporaneo nel quale convivono antichi miti - dalla mitologia norrena al ciclo arturiano - e temi di grande respiro: il senso del libero arbitrio, il valore del perdono, il peso del potere.

Shen Tai è il figlio del generale che ha condotto le forze dell’impero di Kitai nell’ultimo scontro contro i Tagur, vent’anni prima. Quarantamila uomini, su entrambi i fronti, hanno perso la vita in quella battaglia, sulle remote rive di un lago nascosto tra le montagne occidentali. Il Generale Shen Gao è ormai deceduto. Per onorare la memoria del padre, Tai decide di trascorrere i due anni di lutto ufficiale ritirandosi in eremitaggio sul sito della battaglia, tra gli spiriti dei defunti, sforzandosi di dare una degna sepoltura ai loro resti sparpagliati. Una mattina di primavera, però, apprende che la sua veglia non è passata inosservata: la Principessa di Giada Bianca dei Tagur gli offre in dono duecentocinquanta cavalli sardiani, come ricompensa per il suo coraggio e il suo impegno nell’onorare la memoria dei defunti. Dona a un uomo uno dei rinomati cavalli sardiani e lo ricompenserai grandemente. Concedigliene quattro o cinque, e lo eleverai al di sopra dei suoi simili, attirandogli gelosie finanche mortali. Duecentocinquanta cavalli sono un tesoro che va oltre ogni immaginazione, un dono in grado di sopraffare perfino un imperatore.

Notre terre n'est que le pâle reflet d'un monde plus ancien : Fionavar, le grand univers, dans lequel cinq étudiants, Kim, Dave, Jennifer, Paul et Kevin, se retrouvent inopinément projetés. Guidés par le mage Loren Mantel d'Argent, ils vont devoir prendre position dans la guerre éternelle qui oppose les forces de la lumière et celles des ténèbres.

El-Rasan, zemlja zavodljive lepote i nasilne prošlosti, dom je trima veoma različitim kulturama. Ašarijci, koji obožavaju zvezde, došli su iz pustinje i oteli El-Rasan od Džadita. Džaditi, čiji je bog Sunce, sve češće pričaju o svetom ratu kojim će povratiti poluostrvo od neznabožaca. Između dva sučeljena naroda, Kindati, koji obožavaju beli i plavi Mesec noćnog neba, oprezno hode pokušavajući da izbegnu bes obe strane. Mir je teško održiv, a senka nasilja koja razdire ove narode okupiće na istom mestu nekolicinu izuzetnih individua: Amara ibn Kajrana – ašarijskog pesnika, diplomatu i ratnika, Rodriga Belmontea – najslavnijeg džaditskog vojskovođu, i Džehejn bet Išak – briljantnu kindatsku lekarku. Njihove sudbine će se ispreplesti u nizu događaja koji će El-Rasan gurnuti u rat čiji je jedini ishod potpuno uništenje eprijatelja. Inspirisan srednjovekovnom Španijom, Lavovi El-Rasana je uzbudljiv i potresan roman o ljubavi, suprotstavljenim stranama i sudbini koja zadesi muškarce i žene kada ostrašćena uverenja prete da unište ceo svet.

The Thrilling Sequel To Sailing To Sarantium Beckoned by the Emperor Valerius, Crispin, a renowned mosaicist, has arrived in the fabled city of Sarantium. Here he seeks to fulfill his artistic ambitions and his destiny high upon a dome that will become the emerror's magnificent sanctuary and legacy. But the beauty and solitude of his work cannot protect his from Sarantium's intrigue. Beneath him the city swirls with rumors of war and conspiracy, while otherworldly fires mysteriously flicker and disappear in the streets at night. Valerius is looking west to Crispin's homeland to reunite an Empire -- a plan that may have dire consequences for the loved ones Crispin left behind. In Sarantium, however, loyalty is always complex, for Crispin's fate has become entwined with that of Valerius and his Empress, as well as Queen Gisel, his own monarch exiled in Sarantium herself. And now another voyager -- this time from the east -- has arrived, a pysician determined to make his mark amid the shifting, treachearous currents of passion and violence that will determine the empire's fate.

In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world – a world inspired this time by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty. Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his life—in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later—and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north. Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor—and alienates women at the court. But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has. In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.

Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive-and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.

As the Unraveller's armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid in their struggle

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In his eagerly awaited new novel, Guy Gavriel Kay turns his gaze to the northlands, brilliantly evoking the Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic cultures of a turbulent age. There is nothing soft or silken about the north. The lives of men and women are as challenging as the climate and lands in which they dwell. For generations, the Erlings of Vinmark have taken their dragon-prowed ships across the seas, raiding the lands of the Cyngael and Anglcyn peoples, leaving fire and death behind. But times change, even in the north, and in a tale woven with consummate artistry, people of all three cultures find the threads of their lives unexpectedly brought together... Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father's sins, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face, across the sea, with a past he's been trying to leave behind. In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd king, battling inner demons all the while, shores up his defenses with alliances and diplomacy-and with swords and arrows-while his exceptional, unpredictable sons and daughters pursue their own desires when battle comes and darkness falls in the woods. And in the valleys and shrouded hills of the Cyngael, whose voices carry music even as they feud and raid amongst each other, violence and love become deeply interwoven when the dragon ships come and Alun ab Owyn, chasing an enemy in the night, glimpses strange lights gleaming above forest pools. Making brilliant use of saga, song and chronicle, Kay brings to life an unforgettable world balanced on the knife-edge of change in The Last Light of the Sun.

The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan — poet, diplomat, soldier — until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile, in the north, the conquered Jaddites' most celebrated — and feared — military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, driven into exile, leads his mercenary company south. In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan, these two men from different worlds meet and serve — for a time — the same master. Sharing their interwoven fate — and increasingly torn by her feelings — is Jehane, the accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond. Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply compelling story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake — or destroy — a world.

For the first time in one collection, the two internationally bestselling novels of The Sarantine Mosaic, one of Guy Gavriel Kay’s most loved works. Sailing to Sarantium Sarantium is the golden holy to the faithful, exalted by the poets, jewel of the world, and heart of an empire. Artisan Caius Crispus receives a summons from the emperor and sets off on a journey toward the Imperial City. But before Crispin can reach Sarantium, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, he must pass through a land of pagan ritual and mysterious danger. Sailing to Sarantium, the first volume of the brilliant Sarantine Mosaic, weaves an utterly compelling story of the allure and intrigue of a magnificent city and the people drawn into its spell. Lord of Emperors Having finally achieved his journey to fabled Sarantium, Crispin the mosaicist wants nothing more than to confront the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny—but in Sarantium no man may easily withdraw from the turmoil of court and city, or forget that the presence of the half-world is always close by. To the Imperial City there comes another voyager, this time from the east. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, must find his own balance of family and ambition, healing and death, as he, too, is drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. In this concluding volume of the Sarantine Mosaic, Lord of Emperors merges page-turning adventure with a deeply moving meditation on art and power, and the eternal human struggle to leave a legacy.

The first volume in Guy Gavriel Kay’s stunning fantasy masterwork. Five men and women find themselves flung into the magical land of Fionavar, First of all Worlds. They have been called there by the mage Loren Silvercloak, and quickly find themselves drawn into the complex tapestry of events. For Kim, Paul, Kevin, Jennifer and Dave all have their own part to play in the coming battle against the forces of evil led by the fallen god Rakoth Maugrim and his dark hordes. Guy Gavriel Kay’s classic epic fantasy plays out on a truly grand scale, and has already been delighting fans of imaginative fiction for twenty years.

In the second novel in Guy Gavriel Kay's critically acclaimed Fionavar Tapestry, five men and women from our world must play their parts in a colossal war, as the first of all worlds confronts an ancient evil...After a thousand years of imprisonment the Unraveller has broken free and frozen Fionavar in the ice of eternal winter. His terrible vengeance has begun to take its toll on mortals and demi-gods, mages and priestesses, dwarves and the Children of Light. The five brought from Earth across the tapestry of worlds must act to wake the allies Fionavar desperately needs. But no one can know if these figures out of legend have power enough to shatter the icy grip of death upon the land--or if they even want to...

A masterful epic of magic, politics, war, and the power of love and hate — from the renowned author of The Fionavar Tapestry and Children of Earth and Sky. Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel despotic king that even the name of their once-beautiful homeland cannot be spoken or remembered... But years after the devastation, a handful of courageous men and women embark upon a dangerous crusade to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the dark world the brilliance of a long-lost name...Tigana. Against the magnificently rendered background of a world both sensuous and barbaric, this sweeping epic of a passionate people pursuing their dream is breathtaking in its vision, changing forever the boundaries of fantasy fiction.

In Under Heaven, Kay tells a story of honor and power, this time in a setting that evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China. In recognition of his service to the Emperor of Kitai, Shen Tai has been sent a mysterious and dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses. Wisely the gift comes with the stipulation that the horses must be claimed in person. Otherwise, he would probably be dead already.

From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, All the Seas of the World, and A Brightness Long Ago comes a majestic new novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France. Thierry Villar is a well-known--even notorious-- tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies. But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as political struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction. As he does, he meets his poetic equal in an aristocratic woman and is drawn to more than one unsettling person with a connection to the world beyond this one. He also crosses paths with an extraordinary young woman driven by voices within to try to heal the ailing king--and help his forces in war. A wide and varied set of people from all walks of life take their places in the rich tapestry of this story. A new masterwork from the internationally bestselling author of All the Seas of the World, A Brightness Long Ago, and Tigana, Written on the Dark is an elegant tour de force about power and ambition playing out amid the intense human need for art and beauty, and memories to be left behind.

The multiple award-winning fantasy author of The Fionavar Tapestry brings his extraordinary imagination to a tale of mythic figures in contemporary times... 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.

Роман всесвітньо відомого канадського письменника Ґ. Ґ. Кея, написаний у жанрі псевдоісторичного фентезі, – це грандіозна панорама світу, в якій яскраво проведено історичні паралелі з життям Європи в середині першого тисячоліття нашої ери. Сповнена пригод, містичних зустрічей і роздумів про покликання в житті, подорож головного героя Гая Криспа з Варени до Сарантію занурює читача у створений автором світ. Письменник майстерно описує двірцеві інтриги, змальовує життя і звичаї Сарантійської імперії, талановито переплітаючи реальний і містичний світи, любов і ненависть, вірність і зраду. Роман уперше перекладений українською мовою і неодмінно припаде до душі шанувальникам вишуканого фентезі.

這個故事屬於奇幻世界， 但也屬於每個被強權抹消的真實國度、 是每片戰亂的土地上記憶與遺忘的鬥爭── ✴布蘭登‧山德森私房推薦的奇幻大師──蓋‧加佛列‧凱伊 世界奇幻獎得主、 托爾金遺稿《精靈寶鑽》的共同編纂者、 於奇幻文學領域之貢獻獲頒「加拿大勳章」最高榮譽肯定 ✴享譽英語奇幻文壇三十年當代經典，首見繁體中文譯本！ 名列《時代雜誌》百大奇幻小說， 山德森譽為「古往今來的最佳單冊史詩奇幻」， 榮獲加拿大幻想文學最高榮譽極光獎， 軌跡獎最佳奇幻小說、世界奇幻獎最佳長篇小說、創神奇幻獎入圍 ※特別收錄作者全新撰寫臺灣版專屬後記 §故事簡介§ 「布蘭庭匯聚魔力，對那塊土地施下一個亙古未有的魔咒，奪走了那塊土地的名字。 他將這一省邦的名字從每個男男女女的心中徹底消除。 他讓我們彷彿不曾存在過，包括我們的成就、我們的歷史、我們的真名。」 「孤掌半島」上有九個小國，雖有共通的信仰與魔法傳統，但各自為政，並不團結。當擁有強大魔法的外來侵略者──布蘭庭和艾勃利可──渡海來到半島上各據一方，以藝術和商業聞名的南方邦國提嘉納堅決抵抗入侵，在交戰中殺死了布蘭庭的兒子。布蘭庭悲憤不已，不但立刻集中軍力剷平提嘉納，更施法將提嘉納的國名與它存在過的所有證明從世人腦海中抹除，要這個仇敵之國在過去、現在、未來都徹底消失。 提嘉納的王爵在戰爭中屍骨無存，年幼的王子雅列森隱姓埋名到處流亡，背負著倖存者的罪惡感和沉重的壓力，一生的寄託就是把「提嘉納」之名帶回世上。他的追隨者有對故國不復記憶的少年歌手戴文、曾經起義失敗的老邁公爵桑德烈、戰後流離失所的貝爾德與卡翠安娜。他們喬裝成賣藝的音樂家，沿商路蒐集與傳遞情報，希望找到倖存的古民巫師、尋回屬於半島本土的魔法以對抗侵略者的控制；同時，他們製造騷亂、煽動民怨，挑撥布蘭庭和艾勃利可雙方佔領區的嫌隙，為的是讓兩個滅國仇人走向自相殘殺；唯有同時擺脫這兩股勢力，半島才可能重獲自由。 在布蘭庭的宮殿中，皇妃黛安諾拉同樣是失去故土與家人的提嘉納國民，她為了報仇而假造身分埋伏在皇宮裡，成為布蘭庭的寵妾，繼而開始理解他的喪子之痛、見證他在腹背受敵之下治理領土的雄心與困境，陷入了愛恨交織的兩難──尤其是當她得知，布蘭庭決定在半島上落地生根、建立永久政權，吸引到愈來愈多曾視他為仇敵的島民忘卻僅僅十幾年前的屠殺，轉而投入他麾下。 黛安諾拉和雅列森不約而同明白到，他們各自的計畫無比危險，如果不能在最完美的時機執行成功，不但自己會遭受極刑，還會讓孤掌半島再次陷入更殘酷的戰爭…… 　　「在我所有的作品中，不管是對來自世界上哪個國家、使用哪個語言的讀者來說，《遺忘之國提嘉納》引發的迴響可能是最深刻也最私密的，這也一向是我希望能辦到的事情。這部作品是我首度嘗試透過『奇幻』這個文類，採取直接明確的筆法描繪暴政帶來的切身影響，以及暴政對自由和文化認同的威脅。 　　若我在此信筆談論臺灣複雜的歷史，未免太過冒昧也不適當。姑且容我這麼說：我明白無論是臺灣自身抑或是臺灣的文化，在存續上都面臨無比的挑戰。 　　……從墨西哥、波蘭再到克羅埃西亞，每當我在世界各地的國家朗讀或談及這部小說，聽眾之中都常有人問我同一個問題：『你寫的是我們嗎？』 　　某方面來說，是。我在寫的是強權意圖入侵或入侵之後，刻意採取手段抹滅認同的每一個國家、每一個時代。」 ──摘自作者全新撰寫臺灣版專屬後記