- Paperback: 381 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; 1st Trade Pbk. Ed edition (4 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 031286924X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312869243
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,396,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Captivating, with a kiss of the fingers, and a stiletto up the sleeve." --"Kirkus Reviews"
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The frustrated in love know it, the barren women, the silent poets, the lustful priests--all those who suffer from cursed lives. By ones and twos, in carriages, on horseback, on foot, they flock to the Maze at the heart of the city Labirinto.
Five pilgrims, with their enemies, their drinking buddies, and their chance-met companions, journey across a richly imagined Renaissance Italy alive with adventures and magic, to meet in the great Labyrinth. Their adventures grow ever more baroque, comical, and magical, until they reach the heart of the Maze, and perhaps, their hearts' desire.
Five pilgrims, with their enemies, their drinking buddies, and their chance-met companions, journey across a richly imagined Renaissance Italy alive with adventures and magic, to meet in the great Labyrinth. Their adventures grow ever more baroque, comical, and magical, until they reach the heart of the Maze, and perhaps, their hearts' desire.
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Format:Hardcover
This superb fantasy is the best thing I've read all year--and there are lots of good books out. Snyder's Renaissance Italy is impeccably presented, with all the humor, beauty, anguish, ugliness, and magic that one finds in reading writers of the time. The characters are well realized, the story told with wisdom and compassion, and there is--oh joy!--none of the tiresome nineties determinism that seems so requisite in the current Cool Writers. After listening to me read bits aloud, my spouse (a professor) and my daughter (teenage) are fighting to see who gets it next.
Format:Hardcover
This gorgeous novel is set in a lanscape based on Renaissance Italy, and makes use of the masks and archetypes of Commedia dell'Arte. The book won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year, and in my opinion richly deserved it. It's bawdy, funny, suspenseful, thrilling, and has moments of complete enchantment. I've enjoyed this writer's other books, but this one (so far) is the best!
Format:Hardcover
In the tradition of Vonda McIntyre's THE MOON & THE SUN and Jack Dann's MEMORY CATHEDRAL, Midori Snyder has created a fascinating historic fantasy filled with myriad characters, a rich atmosphere of Renaissance Italy and metaphors within metaphors. The theme of Masks -- both those that hide and those that reveal -- is subtley woven through a labarynth of individual struggles and stories of brilliant depth, and subtle humor. A truly wonderful book.
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