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Silk Road Main Edition
Author(s): Colin Falconer (Author)
- Publisher: Corvus
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2011
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857891081
- ISBN-13: 9780857891082
Book Description
1260 AD: Josseran Sarrazini is a man divided in his soul. A Christian Knight Templar haunted by a shameful past, he hopes to find redemption in a dangerous crusade: a journey from Palestine to Xanadu, to form a crucial allegiance against the Saracens at the legendary court of Kubilai Khan – the seat of the Mongol Empire.
Instead he finds the solace he seeks in a warrior-princess from a heathen tribe. Beautiful and ferocious, Khutelun is a Tartar, a nomadic rider of the Mongolian steppe. Although their union is utterly impossible, she will find in Josseran what she cannot find in one of her own.
Parched by desert winds, pursued by Saracen hordes, and now tormented by a passion he cannot control, Josseran must abandon Khutelun if he is to complete his journey and save his soul. Worse, he must travel with William, a Dominican friar of fearsome zeal who longs for matyrdom, but whose life Josseran is sworn to protect. And worse yet, he will arrive in Xanadu just as the greatest empire in human history plunges into civil war.
Winding through the plains of Palestine and over the high mountains of the Hindu Kush, from the empty wastes of the Taklimakan desert to the golden palaces of China, Silk Road Main Edition weaves a spellbinding story of sin, desire, conflict and human frailty onto the vast tapestry of the medieval orient.
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About the Author
Born in the north of London, Colin drove cabs and played guitar in dark bars and rough pubs before joining an advertising agency – ‘a step down.’ He then worked as a television and radio scriptwriter, and as a freelance journalist. He has been a full time novelist for the last twenty years. He has been a full time novelist for the last twenty years, with his historical novels published widely in Europe, the UK and the USA and translated into seventeen languages.
“Falconer’s grasp of the period and places is almost flawless; his pace is good, the dialogue convincing and descriptions effective. He’s my kind of writer.” The Australian
His quest for authenticity led him to run with the bulls in Pamplona, chase tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma, go cage shark diving in South Africa, and get tear gassed in La Paz. He has also chased black witches in Mexico and went into the Amazon to undergo ayahuasca ceremonies with Peruvian shamans.
A critic once introduced him to an audience this way: ‘Colin Falconer’s novels are based on dedicated research and a profound knowledge of his subject, stories of passion and human frailty drawn on a vast canvas, about the perennial nature of love and the human spirit.’
