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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure.The Washington Post Book World Theyre an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, living as they please and surviving however they canas blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolutionon a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of. Praise for Gentlemen of the Road Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabons] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor.San Francisco Chronicle
[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylistthe Updikeof his generation.Time
The action is intricate and exuberant. . . . Its hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabons language.The New York Times Book Review
[A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud.Chicago Sun-Times.… (más)
Limelite: Same formula of the picaqresque mold: hero with sidekick, The Girl, and high adventure, deception, and danger in an exotic setting and in historical times. And a humorous romp, too.
MarthaJeanne: Two unlikely partners who come in and save the day due to knowledge and intelligence more than swordmanship, although they have that too.
The plot and voice of “Gentlemen of the Road” recall the stories found in 19th-century dime novels and the fantastic escapades invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. Gary Gianni’s drawings highlight particularly thrilling moments, and with chapter titles like “On the Observance of the Fourth Commandment Among Horse Thieves” and “On Swimming to the Library at the Heart of the World,” Chabon works old-fashioned niceties into a postmodern pastiche.
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Despising all my glory, abandoning my high estate, leaving my family, I would go over mountains and hills, through seas and lands, till I should arrive at the place where my Lord the King resides, that i might see not only his glory and magnificence, and that of his servants and ministers, but also the tranquility of the Israelites. On beholding this my eyes would brighten, my reins would exult, my lips would pour forth praises to God, who has not withdrawn his favor from his afflicted ones. —letter of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, minister of the Caliph of Spain, to Joseph, ruler of Khazaria, circa 960
From now on, I'll describe the cities to you," the Khan had said, "in your journeys you will see if they exist." —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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À Michael Moorcock
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For numberless years a myna had astounded travelers to the caravansary with its ability to spew indecencies in ten languages, and before the fight broke out everyone assumed the old blue-tongued devil on its perch by the fireplace was the one who maligned the giant African with such foulness and verve.
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On that plain of mud and grass and staring faces, along the battlements and bartizans of the walls of Atil barbed with pikemen and archers, from the Black Sea to the Sea of Khazar, from the Urals to the Caucasus, there was no sound but the wind in the grass, the clop of a sidestepping horse, the broken breathing of the Little Elephant, Filaq, with whom they had marched and slept and shivered, the son, the prince they had raised up on their sholders to rule them as their bek, the revenger of the rape of their sisters and teh burning of their houses and the pillage of their goods. All Zelikman's disdain, all his resentment toward the foul-mouthed spoiled stripling who had plagued him since the rescue at the carvansary vanished with the double shock of the elephant's slaughter and the revelation. In their place he felt only pity for a white thing flecked with mud, a motherless girl, drooping in the grip of the soldier like a captured flag.
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And then they took the first road that led out of the city, unmindful of whether it turned east or south, their direction a question of no interest to either of them, their destination already intimately known, each of them wrapped deep in his thick fur robes and in the solitude that they had somehow contrived to share.
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure.The Washington Post Book World Theyre an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, living as they please and surviving however they canas blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolutionon a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of. Praise for Gentlemen of the Road Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabons] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest . . . laced with surprises and humor.San Francisco Chronicle
[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylistthe Updikeof his generation.Time
The action is intricate and exuberant. . . . Its hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabons language.The New York Times Book Review
[A] wild, wild adventure . . . abounds with lush language . . . This book roars to be read aloud.Chicago Sun-Times.
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