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Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Publication date: November 10, 2007
Penguin Canada
Premium Mass Market Paperback
$13.50, ISBN 9780143016694
Guy Gavriel Kay wins World Fantasy Award
Penguin Group Canada is pleased to announce that Guy Gavriel Kay has been honoured with the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, for his #1 bestseller, Ysabel. The World Fantasy Awards, selected annually by an international panel of judges, are given to authors and artists for outstanding achievement in the literature of the fantastic during the preceding year. The awards are considered among the most prestigious, worldwide, in the speculative fiction genre.
Ysabel is now available from Penguin Canada in paperback. On national bestseller lists for more than 15 weeks in the hardcover edition, Ysabel garnered critical acclaim, well before being honoured with this award. In this brilliant departure from his previous works, Kay brings his extraordinary imagination to a tale of mythic figures in contemporary times, casting a dazzling light on the ways in which history- whether of a culture or a family - refuses to be buried.
In Ysabel, fifteen year old Ned Marriner has accompanied his photographer father to Provence for a six-week “shoot” of images for a glossy coffee-table book. Gradually, Ned discovers a very old story playing itself out in this modern world of iPods, cell phones, and seven-seater vans whipping along roads walked by Celtic tribes and Roman legions. On one holy, haunted night of the ancient year, when the borders between the living and the dead are down and fires are lit up on the hills, Ned, his family, and his friends are shockingly drawn into this tale, as dangerous, mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives.
About the author:
Guy Gavriel Kay is the internationally bestselling author of nine previous novels and a volume of poetry. Among numerous honours and distinctions, he has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic, is a two-time winner of the Aurora Award, and has been nominated three previous times for the World Fantasy Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages and his books have sold over 2 million copies worldwide. His novel, The Lions of Al-Rassan, is currently being developed in Los Angeles by producers Cathy Schulman (“Crash”) and Lorenzo di Bonaventura with Edward Zwick (“The Last Samurai”) attached to direct.
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