In a kingdom on the verge of a grand renaissance, where natural science has supplanted failing sorcery, someone aims to revive a savage rivalry... For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. But when the king of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled. As the king's new agente confide, Portier - much to his dismay - is partnered with the popinjay Ilario de Sylvae, the laughingstock of Sabria's court. Then the need to infiltrate a magical cabal leads Portier to Dante, a brooding, brilliant young sorcerer whose heretical ideas and penchant for violence threaten to expose the investigation before it's begun. But in an ever-shifting landscape of murders, betrayals, old secrets, and unholy sorcery, the three agentes will be forced to test the boundaries of magic, nature, and the divine...
The Spirit Lens - A Novel of the Collegia Magica
Carol Berg
Roc Trade
2010
480 páginas
16h 0m
ISBN-10: 0451463110
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Carol Berg
Carol Berg é a autora das fantasias épicas: a série Rai-Kirah, The Bridge of D'Arnath, o dueto Lighthouse que ganhou o Mythopoeic Fantasy Award - Flesh and Spirit e Breath and Bone - o romance autônomo Song of the Beast, e a trilogia Collegia Magica. Berg é formada em Matemática pela Rice University, e tem licenciatura em ciência da computação da University of Colorado. Antes de escrever em tempo integral, ela trabalhou como engenheira de software. Ela mora no Colorado, no sopé das Montanhas Rochosas, e é mãe de três filhos, já adultos.
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