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    <body><![CDATA[Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sailing to Sarantium was really fascinating. The back of the book calls it a “historical novel,” but I don’t agree. The book is set in the city of Sarantium, which is obviously supposed to be the city of Byzantium (later it was called Constantinople; now it’s Istanbul). T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51110461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Alors que sa femme et ses filles sont emportées par la peste, Crispin de Varèna survit. Il reçoit alors une demande émanant de l’Empereur Valérius II, de la cité dorée et précieuse : Sarance. Ce dernier fait appel à son talent en tant que mosaïste. Crispin s’en va traverser l’empire ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58029393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my review of this book's sequel 'Lord of Emperors' for the full review. I do think the sequel is better, but only because this book is truly 'Sailing' to where we want it to be, whereas the sequel is the real meat of what we find at our unlikely destination.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sept 2008.<br/><br/>I was somewhat more aware of the historical origins of this book, although I kept drawing comparisons with my knowledge of Ancient Rome. In terms of the parallels, I actually find it interesting to figure out what represents what -- e.g. the Kindath and the Jews, the Jaddites a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28144125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kay based this book on the Byzantine empire during the time of Justinian and Theodora, and it is told largely from the standpoint of Crispin a Rhodian (Roman) mosaicist, mourning his wife and children who died in a plague, and who is brought to Sarantium (Constantinople) to design and execute the mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4363591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sarantium Mosaic is one of my favourite stories. It is a fantasy novel, yet the world it describes feels authentic and real. Guy Gavriel Kay has accomplished this in several ways. His characters have depth and complexity, subtlety and grace. They experience the full range of emotions, including ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15187631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kay's fantasy novels are known for their appropriation of classic historical periods rife with potential for real stories, full characters and a perspective just enough askew to make us sit back in wonder. This Byzantium era story is replete with gorgeous detail, marvelous characters and a deconstru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63725352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The guy is a genius!  Again a historic fantasy but a great/easy read.  Couldn't put it down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Guy Gavriel Kay. In the Sarantium Mosaic (I'm grouping the books because you really don't want to read just one), a testy, brilliant mosaicist is called to the emperor's court in Sarantium (think Byzantium) to create mosaics for the dome of the great cathedral being built. It's be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22977183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A decent story with some adventure and emotional depth.  Not one of mu favorites though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1) by Guy Gavriel Kay (2000)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Guy is such a wonderful writer. His ability to place the reader in a sense of place and time is matched by few writers. I'm sorry to say that this novel was unable to hook me. I stayed with it for 350 pages but had to move on to something else. The characters, as with all of Kay's novels, were inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14070399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course, GGK is the greatest author of this century and last.  With that said, The Sarantine Mosaic is a work of art written around the creation of a work of art [a mosaic].  This work is an obvious historical fiction, peripheral to the lives of Justinian and Theodora.<br/><br/>Kay's dedication ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31964867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kay's books are always worth reading, but in the two books of &quot;The Sarantine Mosaic&quot; his deliberately convoluted manner detracts from the flow of the story. Again and again he leads the reader up to a dramatic point, only to change locations -- or time periods. I suspect this is intended t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28091085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay is the first book of a duology, collectively called The Sarantine Mosaic (the second half is Lord of Emperors). These two books are only the latest example of Kay’s unique and stunning skills as a storyteller. Set in a fictionalized Europe shortly after the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2620065">more...</a>]]></body>
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