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Ysabel / Guy Gavriel Kay.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0670043214
- ISBN: 9780670043217
- ISBN: 9780143016694 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0143016695 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0670043214 :
- Physical Description: 421 pages ; illustrations 24 cm. :
- Publisher: Toronto : Viking Canada, 2007.
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| Subject: | Canadians > France > Fiction. Americans > France > Fiction. Cathedrals > Fiction. Magic, Celtic > Fiction. Aix-en-Provence (France) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Canadian fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- Penguin Putnam
Guy Kayâs first contemporary fantasy is a tour de forceâand his bestselling novel ever. Fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner accompanies his photographer father to Provence,where he is shooting images for a glossy coffee-table book. As Ned strolls along roads walked by Celtic tribes and Roman legions, he discovers a very old story playing itself out in this modern world of iPods and cell phones. On one holy, haunted night of the ancient year, when the borders between the living and the dead are down and fires are lit upon the hills, Ned, his family, and friends are shockingly drawn into this tale, as dangerous,mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives.
