ISBN: 9780553813197    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Mass Market Paperback No of Pages: 1296        Language: English

In Darujhistan, the saying goes that Love and Death shall arrive together, dancing... 'It is summer and the heat is oppressive, yet the discomfiture of the small rotund man in the faded red waistcoat is not entirely due to the sun. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city's streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways but it seems the hunters have become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. Strangers have arrived, and while the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds. All is palpably not well. And in Black Coral too, ruled over by Anomander Rake Son of Darkness, something is afoot - memories of ancient crimes surface, clamouring for revenge, so it would seem that Love and Death are indeed about to make their entrance... This is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most exciting.
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Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is a graduate of the celebrated Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first fantasy novel, the critically acclaimed Gardens of the Moon, marked the opening chapter in the epic sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. It is published by Bantam, as are the equally acclaimed subsequent volumes, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice and House of Chains. The fifth book in the sequence, Midnight Tides, is available in Bantam Press. Steven Erikson lives in Canada.
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