Paolo Bacigalupi
Navola

2024 | Nakladatelství Folio, spol.s r.o.

'Steeped in poison, betrayal, and debauchery, reading Navola is like slipping into a luxurious bath full of blood.' Holly BlackNavola is a city built on trade.Its palazzos and towers are conjured from its merchant wealth: barley and rice, flax and wool, iron and silver, arms, armies, lives and kingdoms are all traded h…ere.And presiding over it all, the Regulai bank. By guile, force of arms and the cast-iron might of their money and promises, in just three generations the Regulai family have risen far from their humble origins: merchants beg their backing, artists their patronage, princes an invitation to dine at their table. The Regulai say they are not political, but their wealth buys cities and topples kingdoms. Soon, Davico di Regulai will take the reins of power. But the boy is not well-suited for his role. His heart is soft where it should be hard. He is credulous when he should be suspicious. He is tired of being tested and trained to inherit a legacy he is not sure he wants. But Davico is inextricably tangled in fate's net and his doubts can only summon ruin.In the shade of Navola's colonnaded porticoes, his family's enemies gather and plot.In the shadows of its deep catacombs, assassins sharpen their stiletto knives.In the kingdoms of Cerulean Peninsula, princes and despots muster their armies.Davico's only hope rests in the heart of a girl whose own family was destroyed by the Regulai, and in a crystalline orb the size of a human head, said to be the eye of a long-dead dragon. 'Steeped in poison, betrayal, and debauchery, reading Navola is like slipping into a luxurious bath full of blood.' Holly BlackNavola is a city built on trade.Its palazzos and towers are conjured from… its merchant wealth: barley and rice, flax and wool, iron and silver, arms, armies, lives and kingdoms are all traded here.And presiding over it all, the Regulai bank. By guile, force of arms and the cast-iron might of their money and promises, in just three generations the Regulai family have risen far from their humble origins: merchants beg their backing, artists their patronage, princes an invitation to dine at their table. The Regulai say they are not political, but their wealth buys cities and topples kingdoms. Soon, Davico di Regulai will take the reins of power. But the boy is not well-suited for his role. His heart is soft where it should be hard. He is credulous when he should be suspicious. He is tired of being tested and trained to inherit a legacy he is not sure he wants. But Davico is inextricably tangled in fate's net and his doubts can only summon ruin.In the shade of Navola's colonnaded porticoes, his family's enemies gather and plot.In the shadows of its deep catacombs, assassins sharpen their stiletto knives.In the kingdoms of Cerulean Peninsula, princes and despots muster their armies.Davico's only hope rests in the heart of a girl whose own family was destroyed by the Regulai, and in a crystalline orb the size of a human head, said to be the eye of a long-dead dragon.

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Nová

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O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	559
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1035908646
ISBN:	9781035908646
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	1. 7. 2025 12:45
Číslo položky:	1286884

O autorovi

Paolo Bacigalupi

Bacigalupi se narodil v Coloradu, studoval na St. Berlin College v Ohiu a jako hlavní obor si zvolil čínštinu. Po studiu se začal živit tvorbou webových stránek. Zakrátko napsal svou první sci-fi povídku , ovšem na radu Harlana Ellisona se začal věnovat mainstreamu. Když v něm stále nemohl uspět, vrátil se k fantastice. Ta mu rychle poskytla doslova žeň všech možných literárních cen anebo alespoň nominací . Jeho povídky otiskují prestižní časopisy, zabývající se literární fantastikou, například Asimov´s Science Fiction nebo The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A právě posledně jmenovaný časopis je pro české čtenáře vzhledem ke sbírce Čerpadlo 6 takovým drobným hendikepem. Kromě tisíců příznivců na celém světě, má Bacigalupiho styl svého obrovského zastánce i v osobě Martina Šusta, šéfredaktora české mutace Magazínu fantasy a science fiction. Je tedy pochopitelné, že pro nás vždycky ulapí i autorův nejnovější kousek. To je taky důvodem, proč budete většinu z povídek, které jsou v Čerpadle 6 obsažené, už znát.

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