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Original Title:	Sailing to Sarantium
ISBN:	0743450094 (ISBN13: 9780743450096)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sarantine Mosaic #1
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1999), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2001), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (1999)

Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic #1) Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

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Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive-and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.

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Title	:	Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic #1)
Author	:	Guy Gavriel Kay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	November 4th 2002 by Earthlight (first published September 7th 1998)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Fantasy

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I've never read anything like this book before. Sailing to Sarantium is an amazing fantasy story with elements of art and history. I was really surprised by how well-written and imaginative it really was.

I would like to have been in the room when Guy Gavriel Kay pitched this story to his publishers: Its a historical fantasy novel based on the Byzantine Empire and the works of W.B. Yeats. The main character is an artist caught up in political schemes during a tumultuous time.Uh.The Byzantine Empire and poems? And the hero isnt any kind of an archer or a sorcerer? Some kind of bad ass like we usually see in these books?No, hes just a mosaicist. Thats a guy who glues bits of colored glass or tiles

A breath of fresh air from traditional fantasy with exquisite prose, but a few of the characters seem indistinguishable from one another and the irregular sequence is a hindrance. Still, a story that stands out.

Duology review: 5 brilliant stars!!My favourite Kay books so far. This duology is, simply put, a masterpiece!!A wonderful homage to art, to women, to beauty and to love!Kay's writing is elegant, almost poetic at times and rich beyond measure at others, matching the greatness and opulence of Sarantium. He will take you on a journey through which you will just have to pay attention to the road, having no clue whatsoever as to the destination. But it is all worth it! Full Painting of The Sarantine

For most of this read, I thought I was holding another 5-star GGK book. The political manueverings and intrigue are fantastic, as are the twists and turns that the protagonist, Caius Crispus, faces. The individual pieces in the political puzzle are intriguing too, from the Empress Arixana and the Emperor Valerius to the Queen Gisel, and the First Stratego Leontus and his seductive aristocrat bride.The book beautifully sets up the sequel, Lord of Emperors, which now goes to the top of my read

See my review of this book's sequel 'Lord of Emperors' for the full review. I do think the sequel is better, but only because this book is truly 'Sailing' to where we want it to be, whereas the sequel is the real meat of what we find at our unlikely destination.

To say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something too vast for his capacity.Caius Crispus is a man, a mosaicist by trade, who has been living under the shadow of grief after losing his wife and two daughters to the Plague. His life is only about his work now. The decision of an emperor in a neighboring country to