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A Brightness Long Ago, by Guy Gavriel Kay
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By making the familiar ever so slightly strange, GGK breathes new life into historical fantasy. Beautifully faceted, jewel-like scenes carry us beyond the doublets and daggers to create an emotionally charged, high-stakes world of love and hate, threat and reward. (Daily Mail)The greatest living author of epic fantasy (Brandon Sanderson)The finest in his field (Tor.com)Believably and with great vividness, Kay recreates the past not as it was, but as it might have, perhaps should have, been (Financial Times)A Brightness Long Ago is a masterpiece; perhaps the finest work of one of the world's greatest living storytellers (Fantasy Book Review)No matter what the era, the themes, the characters, or the plot, a Guy Gavriel Kay novel is always a marvel of narrative construction (Beauty in Ruins Blog on A BRIGHTNESS LONG AGO)The single best reason I can think of for reading a Guy Gavriel Kay book is the supreme elegance and grace of his writing. ... A Brightness Long Ago is yet another gorgeous, moving novel from a master craftsman (Fantasy Literature Reviewer)Guy Gavriel Kay has a wonderful talent. He tells stories in an invented world that is so rich in historical echoes that I found myself smiling with pleasure as I heard the echoes, while engrossed in the story. Warmly recommended (Edward Rutherfurd, author of SARUM)Another brilliant novel from a literary giant (HNS Magazine)Guy Gavriel Kay ... may now hold the best claim to being the greatest living writer of fantasy fiction... Kay's novels take real historical events and then weave a fantastical new shape out of them, creating a rich tapestry of characters, events and emotions that is never less than affecting, and, at his best, can be deeply moving. A Brightness Long Ago (*****) is another superb novel from an author who may be fantasy's most reliably excellent, thoughtful, atmospheric and humane writer, and one whose powers remain notably undimmed. It's a book about lives, how people live them and the events that shape them, and how everything is connected (The Wertzone Blog on A BRIGHTNESS LONG AGO)
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Guy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven, River of Stars and Children of Earth and Sky returns with yet another breathtaking epic.
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Taschenbuch: 448 Seiten
Verlag: Hodder Paperbacks (23. Januar 2020)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1473692377
ISBN-13: 978-1473692374
Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung:
5.0 von 5 Sternen
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Nr. 158.816 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
"A Brightness Long Ago" ist ungefähr 25 Jahre vor des Autors vorigem Roman Children of Earth and Sky angesiedelt, und somit in derselben fiktiven Welt von "The Lions of Al-Rassan" und "Sailing to Saratium/Lord of Emperors". Die Zeit entspricht also jener des Italiens der Stadtstaaten und Condottieri, von Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" de' Medici und natürlich Venedig. Das zentrale Thema ist der Konflikt zweier Söldnerführer - angelehnt an die Fehde zwischen Federico Montefeltro, Herzog von Urbino und Sigismondo Malatesta, dem "Wolf von Rimini" - vor dem Hintergrund der Eroberung von Konstantinopel im Jahr 1453.In diesen Konflikt wird der junge und gebildete Guidanio Cerra unfreiwillig verwickelt und verliebt sich dabei in die Nichte eines der beiden Condottiere. Diese weigert sich, sich dem vorgezeichneten Lebensweg einer adligen Tochter - Kloster oder einträgliche Heirat - zu folgen, und ihr Onkel gibt ihr die Chance, dem zu entfliehen.Das Schöne bei Guy Gavriel Kay ist, dass der Leser nicht ahnen kann, ob das gut gehen wird oder nicht - und so soll es an dieser Stelle auch bleiben.Die Perspektiven wechseln oft und innerhalb von Kapiteln; dabei sind die Teile aus Guidanios Perspektive in der ersten Person geschrieben - er erzählt die Ereignisse als Mittvierziger. Als er am Ende des Buches seine Geschichte beendet, steht die Anfangshandlung von "Children of Earth and Sky" unmittelbar bevor; es gibt daher auch - wenige - personelle Überschneidungen in den beiden Büchern.Kay, bzw. seine Protagonist/-innen reflektieren an vielen Stellen, dass unsere Entscheidungen einerseits nicht nur unser Leben, sondern auch das von anderen nachhaltig beeinflussen können - aber eben nur "können", denn genauso gut mag ein als tiefgreifend erscheinender Entschluss trotzdem keinerlei Auswirkungen auf das Später haben. Die Wiederholung dieses Themas mag der einen Leserin, dem anderen Leser als zu oft erscheinen. Der Titel "A Brightness Long Ago" bezieht sich jedenfalls auf unsere Erinnerungen, speziell auf jene, die in besonders hellem Licht der - vielleicht verklärten - Vergangenheit in uns wohnen.Habe ich zu "Children of Earth and Sky" angemerkt, dass jener Roman aufgrund der Vielzahl der Akteure durchaus länger hätte sein können, so finde ich die Länge von "A Brightness Long Ago" aufgrund des vergleichsweise überschaubaren Personenkreises und der konzentriert erzählten Handlung als angemessen - obwohl er mit nur etwas über 400 Seiten Kays kürzester Roman seit langem - oder überhaupt - ist. Für mich ist es der stimmigste und somit beste seiner Romane seit Under Heaven ("Im Schatten des Himmels") aus dem Jahr 2010.
Guy Gavriel Kay seems to be on a roll. His last book, Children of Earth and Sky opened up a new story track shared by this release as well. It is inspired by the history of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the same world building as his Sarantium Mosaic but set several hundred years later than the events depicted in those two novels. A Brightness Long Ago is wrapped around events in the eastern Meditteranean around the time of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman army in 1453. Kay changes names and some of the historic detail in order to allow himself more freedom of maneuver but students of history will have no trouble seeing the basic outline. There are five main characters, two of them pivotal but developed in less detail than the other three who are minor in the scheme of things but provide the reader with a close up and very human view of events. The two pivotal characters are mercenaries with a decades long bitter running feud who are both admirable in many ways but do to the mischances of life have been set on a path of revenge. The three minor leads include a bookish and intospective young man at loose ends after an assassination leaves him unemployed. The threesome is rounded out by two young women from widely different backgrounds with a strong desire not to be forced into a conventional life. The events of the book see them drift together and apart as the world changes rapidly around them and launches them on different life paths than they had imagined when they were younger and more innocent. Kay delivers beautiful writing as in all of his past works since Tigana came out in 1990. I passed on including the Fionavar Tapestry written by a younger and less nuanced Kay. What Kay delivers less of starting with his last book, Children of Earth and Sky, is a bleak view of the world. Fionavar showed signs of humor, but from Tigana on words like light hearted or playful, humorous or optimistic are not ones I would use to describe his work. In fact the books became more and more downbeat with The Lions of Al-Rassan, Under Heaven, and River of Stars reaching beyond sad and were powerfully depressing. A skilled author's mood and intentions can be shared with his audience, that's why I read. We all go through periods in life that are not easy. Hopefully we are open to learning from these episodes and grow because of them. Something seems to have changed in Kay's life about then based on the tone of his writing. These last two books showed a significant lightening of mood and outcome. Kay seems less willing to sacrifice sympathetic protagonists to some abstract ideal especially ones to do with supporting despotic and corrupt governments as he has done often in the past. He also seems to be showing warriors' martial glory in a far less reverent light in both of these two books as well. I don't know anything about Mr. Kay's life but whatever caused this to happen gave me back one of my favorite authors and also gave the world a better person. I thank you.
A Brightness Long Ago might be my Kay’s best novel to date. A thematically complex work focused on memory and the intersection of choice and fate. Our main character is Guidanio Cerra, a well-educated son of a tailor now a powerful member of Seressa’s(Fantasy Venice) ruling council. He mournfully recalls his youth where his life crossed paths with two powerful feuding Condottiere Folco d’Acrosi and Teobaldo Monticola di Remigio, and the fateful events surrounding their final confrontation.Guidanio’s recollections are written in conversational first-person and filled with his philosophical and religious musings on memory, love, fate, and will. But other characters and sections are written in the third person, giving us a complex and satisfying view of the personalities populating this world.The beauty of this novel is not in the plot, which is painted with broad strokes, but in the interconnected depth of characters and in the theme of fate and choice. Several times in the novel minor characters make small, seemingly inconsequential choices that turn out to have life-changing consequences in later chapters.What I personally loved is the lack of linear logic in the chain of events. Sometimes things just happen. People just die. People get sick. People make irrational decisions that lead to catastrophic results. Sometimes your favorite loses the race and you go home. Sometimes the heroes don’t answer the call. Sometimes you luck out and win. Maybe the person you randomly meet is ends up being the love of your life, or maybe not, and you quickly forget each other.As humans, we tend to think of our lives, the past, history, as a logical linear progression and our brains invent a connected narrative. But, real life isn’t like that, the narrative is always tacked on with hindsight. The future is hard to predict due to the vagaries of fate and choice. A Brightness Long Ago captures this like no novel I’ve read before. For the first time in awhile, I was actually surprised at some of the events without it feeling contrived.The setting is beautiful and full of depth and the characters, from the major players to the minor ones that only stay with you for a few paragraphs are perfectly written. Connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance history will recognize Kay’s fantasy stand ins for the city-states, the mercenaries, the Medici, the Popes, and numerous other Renaissance personalities like Michelangelo. The world has a magical quality but also feels real and more complex than fantasy worlds developed over numerous novels.A Brightness Long Ago is a fantastic, beautiful, and elegant novel. The perfect mix of literary and fantastic writing. A novel that goes beyond plot, exploring a complex theme, yet doesn’t sacrifice character, adventure, and magic. I have a feeling it stays at the top of my favorites for a long time.
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