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MediaDB / «Shadow in the Midsummer by Daniel Abraham: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2009 / A strange, exotic world...Here, on the ruins of an ancient empire, the cities of Hayem were formed, ruled by powerful rulers - the hai, and which are always threatened by a warlike neighbor - the kingdom of Galt. Here poetry has magical power, for only poets have the power to summon and subjugate mysterious spirits - Andats, who are capable of helping people both in peaceful days and in menacing times of war. But one of the Andats - the Nameless One - does not like to be in the service of Heshai, the famous poet of the city of Saraiket. He wants freedom and power - and therefore starts a risky and dangerous game, the goal of which is to destroy the poet and help Galt in the conquest of Saraiket. As his weapon, the Nameless One chooses Otz, a noble young man who ran away from the school of poets and was studying with a merchant, his childhood friend - beloved student Heshai Maati and his beloved Liat…