Read Series: The Sarantine Mosaic
by Author Guy Gavriel Kay
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Sailing to Sarantium (2002)
I would like to have been in the room when Guy Gavriel Kay pitched this story to his publishers: “It’s a historical fantasy novel based on the Byzantine Empire and the works of W.B. Yeats. The main character is an artist caught up in political schemes during a tumultuous time.”“Uh….The Byzantine...
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Lord of Emperors (2001)
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...Lord of Emperors is the second (and final) novel in Guy Gavriel Kay’s THE SARANTINE MOSAIC duology. The story, set in a pseudo-Byzantine Empire, mostly centers on Crispin, a mosaicist from a neighboring kingdom who’s been commissioned to decorate the ceilin...