Naamah's Curse
By (Author) Jacqueline Carey
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
14th June 2011
United Kingdom
Paperback
576
Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 37mm
398g
Moirin is alone and far from the land of her birth, with nothing but a few resources of her own to draw upon and few friends she can call upon, in what is about to become a nation of enemies.
She has her natural ability with a bow, for survival and a facility for languages - and then there are the gifts of her gods: a small ability for foretelling, for concealment and to coax plants to grow. Alongside them all she has the gift of Naamah: the gift of desire. Yet these are small advantages against the challenges she will face - betrayal, treachery and indoctrination - and some of them may not prove to be advantages at all.There is a long, difficult journey ahead of her, in her search for Bao, the young Ch'in warrior who carries a piece of her soul as well as her heart and even harder decisions to make.Jacqueline Carey is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Kushiel's Legacy series of historical fantasy novels and The Sundering epic fantasy duology. The desire to write professionally emerged as a driving passion whilst she was living in London and working in a bookshop. She has won a number of awards for her fiction.