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<p>Michael Chabon&#8217;s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures&#8211;from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber&#8217;s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories&#8211;in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade&#8217;s most tantalizing tales.<p>They&#8217;re an odd pair, to be sure&#58; pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can&#8211;as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close

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Author

Michael Chabon; Gary Gianni

Publisher

Del Rey/Ballantine Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9782007029253

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (177 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14