Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia, Book 1)

David Anthony Durham

ISBN 10: 0385506066 / ISBN 13: 9780385506069

Verlag: Doubleday, 2007

Beschreibung

1st print/edition hardcover in mylar protected dust jacket. vg/vg or better, nice copy; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, not book club, dj price intact, number line down to 1. fiction hardcover. Language: eng.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7722

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia, Book 1)
• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0385506066
• ISBN-13: 9780385506069
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • science fiction

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Inhaltsangabe

Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity, won ages ago by his ancestors. A widower of high intelligence, he presides over an empire called Acacia, after the idyllic island from which he rules. He dotes on his four children and hides from them the dark realities of traffic in drugs and human lives on which their prosperity depends. He hopes that he might change this, but powerful forces stand in his way. And then a deadly assassin sent from a race called the Mein, exiled long ago to an ice-locked stronghold in the frozen north, strikes at Leodan in the heart of Acacia while they unleash surprise attacks across the empire. On his deathbed, Leodan puts into play a plan to allow his children to escape, each to their separate destiny. And so his children begin a quest to avenge their father's death and restore the Acacian empire–this time on the basis of universal freedom.

ACACIA is a thrilling work of literary imagination that creates an all-enveloping and mythic world that will carry readers away. It is a timeless tale of heroism and betrayal, of treachery and revenge, of primal wrongs and ultimate redemption. David Durham has reimagined the epic narrative for our time in a book that will surely mark his breakthrough to a wide audience.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM is the award-winning author of the novels Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness, and Pride of Carthage, which has been translated into six languages. Durham currently lives with his wife and children in California, and he teaches in the MFA program at Cal State University, Fresno.