{"product_id":"children-of-earth-sky","title":"Children Of Earth \u0026 Sky By Kay, Guy Gavriel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels \u003ci\u003eUnder Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57553945395582,"sku":"NW9781473628137","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781473628137.jpg?v=1783132526","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/children-of-earth-sky","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}