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Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
THE LIONS OF AL-RASSAN. Copyright © Guy Gavriel Kay 1995
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Source ISBN: 9780007342068
Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2011 ISBN: 9780007352227
Version: 2016-11-18
Dedication
For Harry Karlinsky and Mayer Hoffer,
after thirty-five years
Epigraph
The evening is deep inside me forever.
Many a blond, northern moonrise,
Like a muted reflection, will softly
remind me and remind me again and again.
It will be my bride, my alter ego.
An incentive to find myself. I myself
am the moonrise of the south.
—PAUL KLEE, THE TUNISIAN DIARIES
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Principal Characters
Map
Prologue
It was just past midday, not long before the third…
Part One
Chapter I
Always remember that they come from the desert.
Chapter II
After somehow coping with the disastrous incident at the very…
Chapter III
From within Husari ibn Musa’s chamber late in the afternoon…
Chapter IV
The small-farmers of Orvilla, twelve of them, had come to…
Part Two
Chapter V
“There’s trouble coming,” said Diego, as he ran past the…
Chapter VI
Esteren was a catastrophe of carpenters, masons, bricklayers and laborers.
Part Three
Chapter VII
“Well then,” said Almalik of Cartada, the Lion of Al-Rassan,…
Chapter VIII
Ivories and throngs of people, these were the predominant images…
Chapter IX
The wind was north. Yazir could taste salt in the…
Part Four
Chapter X
Nino di Carrera, young, handsome and adept, the most favored…
Chapter XI