# Children of Earth and Sky

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- Book: [Children of Earth and Sky](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-gavriel-kay/children-of-earth-and-sky) ([Children of Earth and Sky.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-gavriel-kay/children-of-earth-and-sky.md))
- Authors: [Guy Gavriel Kay](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-gavriel-kay)
- Publisher: hodder_scape_paren_imprint_for_domain
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7362-812-0
- Published: 2016-05-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Guy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, once again visits a world that evokes one that existed in our own past, this time the tumultuous period of Renaissance Europe - a world on the verge of war, where ordinary lives play out in the grand scheme of kingdoms colliding. 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 in her role of a spy. The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the clever younger son of a merchant family - with ambivalence 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 . . .