Children of Earth and Sky av Guy Gavriel Kay

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<p><b>Guy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels <i>Under Heaven</i> and <i>River of Stars</i>, 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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 bo