{"product_id":"a-brightness-long-ago-9780451472991","title":"A Brightness Long Ago","description":"\u003cb\u003eInternational bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count--and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn night--intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of danger--and freedom. Which is how she encounters Danio in a perilous time and place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivid figures share the unfolding story. Among them: a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a powerful religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting all these lives and many more, two larger-than-life mercenary commanders, lifelong adversaries, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Brightness Long Ago\u003c\/i\u003e offers both compelling drama and deeply moving reflections on the nature of memory, the choices we make in life, and the role played by the turning of Fortune's wheel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Gavriel Kay\u003c\/b\u003e is the international bestselling author of the Fionovar Tapestry series, \u003ci\u003eTigana, The Last Light of the Sun, Under Heaven, River of Stars, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChildren of Earth and Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Berkley Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647133749522,"sku":"9780451472991","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_100c8a71-ee16-4ea8-a28b-f8def15f3ef2.jpg?v=1733195584","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-brightness-long-ago-9780451472991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}