The Wandering Fire - (Fionavar Tapestry) by Guy Gavriel Kay (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>After a millennia of imprisonment, the Unravellor has broken free and is threatening mortals, immortals, mages, warriors, dwarves, and Children of Light alike.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>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...<br></b><br>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. <p/>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...<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b><b>Praise for The Fionovar Tapestry<br></b></b><br>"Kay has delivered such a magnificent...volume that I can't praise it enough. The Fionavar Tapestry is a work that will be read for many years to come. It is a book that makes one proud to be working in the same genre as its author."--Charles de Lint <p/>"I'm overwhelmed...<i>The Summer Tree</i> is one of those books that change your perception of the world forever afterward."--Marion Zimmer Bradley <p/>"A remarkable achievement...the essence of high fantasy."--<i>Locus <p/></i>"Kay's intricate Celtic background will please fantasy buffs...in the manner of <i>The Silmarillion</i>, the posthumous Tolkien work that Kay helped edit."--<i>Publishers Weekly<br></i><br>"Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes."--<i>Toronto Star</i> <p/> "Certainly this is one of the very best of the fantasies which have appeared since Tolkien, and I trust it will be recognized as such."--Andre Norton<i> <p/> </i>"This is the only fantasy work I know which does not suffer by comparison to <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>."--<i><i>Interzone</i> <p/> </i>"Can be compared only with Tolkien's masterpiece. A passionate battle between good and evil...it delights the spirit."--<i><i>Star-Phoenix</i><br></i><br>"Satisfying...a highly literate, lovingly detailed work of fantasy."--<i><i>Fantasy Review</i></i> <p/>"Kay's bestselling--and stunning--fantasy trilogy finds its power not in its feats of imagination or world-building (though there are dazzling heapings of both) but from its rootedness in the reality of human emotions and relationships."--<i>The Globe and Mail</i> <p/>"A grand galloping narrative...reverberates with centuries of mythic and incantory implications--with a little Prince Hal and Falstaff on the side."--<i>Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/> "<i>The Fionavar Tapestry</i>, when all is said and done, is one of the most beautifully written and moving fantasy trilogies ever written. Those are very large words, but I truly believe this book is large enough to fit into such a reputation."--Green Man Review<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Guy Gavriel Kay</b> is the international bestselling author of numerous fantasy novels including The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, <i>Tigana</i>, <i>The Last Light of the Sun</i>, <i>Under Heaven</i>, <i>River of Stars</i>, and <i>Children of Earth and Sky</i>. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic, and won the World Fantasy Award for <i>Ysabel </i>in 2008. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
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