Publisher's Synopsis
The Western mosaicist Crispin has arrived in the golden city of Sarantium and sets out to confront the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny-but he soon discovers that no man can withdraw from the dangerous intrigues of court and city, or forget that the presence of the half-world is always close by. To the Imperial City there also comes another voyager, Rustem of Kerakek, a physician from the east who finds that his own fate is not simply that of a healer.
In this concluding volume of the Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay brilliantly merges an epic adventure with a deeply moving meditation on art and power, and the eternal human struggle to leave a legacy.
