The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld - Tapa blanda

Praise for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld "Rich and regal."--New York Times "This is my favorite book of all time. If I had to pick a desert island book, it would be this one."--Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate "Some books stay with you. It's been over forty years now since I first read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and succumbed to its enchantments. With its rich and lyric prose, its wondrous mix of characters (beasts included!), and its thoroughly enchanted world it was unlike anything I had read to that point. Forty years later I still cherish the experience. Some books truly do stay with you."--Bruce Coville, author of the Dragon Chronicles "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a cold mountain wind that blows through the soul and leaves it cleaner and lighter afterwards. I first read the book twelve or thirteen years ago, and its power has only grown with time, taking on increasing urgency and relevance in these latter days. Fear, hope, love, hatred, and all that makes us human assume magical forms in McKillip's characteristically gorgeous prose."--E. Lily Yu, author of "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" "There is a magic and grandeur to McKillip's focused prose, a kind of resounding clarity that lives and echoes in the mind long after the story is done."--Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day "With elegant, lyrical prose, Patricia A. McKillip creates a timeless fairytale of love, revenge, and the cost of each. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a book I return to, time and again, always finding some new layer to the tale. Like the wondrous beasts within its pages, this book is both beautiful and dangerous; you can't read it without being changed."--Kelly Sandoval "Like the Ring trilogy or the Earthsea books . . . This magical moonlit fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense, adventure, richness of concept and language and--perhaps rarest of all in romantic fantasy--a sly sense of humor."--Publishers Weekly "Gorgeous, lyrical prose."--Guardian "It feels ageless, eternal, light and perfect like a star."--SF Site "The best fantasy novel of the year and perhaps of the decade. It's a mythical kingdom fantasy with a marvelous heroine, satisfying strange beasts, and chilling sorcery."--Locus "Patricia McKillip weaves an incredibly rich, poetic, wise and mystical story, holding her readers spellbound."--St. Louis Dispatch-Post "This book gave me chills . . . It is simply SO GOOD and has a beautiful fluidity to it that makes it so easy to fall into."--From Cover to Cover "If you read this book, you're in for a treat. Filled with wondrous magical land, weird creatures, unexpected plot with fight for country power, love and revenge."--Staree Praise for Patrica A. McKillip "McKillip's is the first name that comes to mind when I'm asked whom I read myself, whom I'd recommend that others read, and who makes me shake my grizzled head and say, 'Damn I wish I'd done that.'" --Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and Summerlong [STAR] "World Fantasy Award winner McKillip can take the most common fantasy elements--dragons and bards, sorcerers and shape-shifters--and reshape them in surprising and resonant ways."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "I read--and reread--McKillip eagerly. She reminds me that fantasy is worth writing."

Winner of the World Fantasy Award"Rich and regal."--New York TimesYoung Sybel, the heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, she is attended by exotic, magical beasts: Riddle-master Cyrin the boar; the treasure-starved dragon Gyld; Gules the Lyon, tawny master of the Southern Deserts; Ter, the fiercely vengeful falcon; Moriah, feline Lady of the Night. Sybel only lacks the exquisite and mysterious Liralen, which continues to elude her most powerful enchantments. But when a soldier bearing an infant arrives, Sybel discovers that the world of man and magic is full of both love and deceit--and the possibility of more power than she can possibly imagine.