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Leodan Akaran ruler of the Known World has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity won ages ago by his ancestors A widower of high intelligence he presides over an empire called Acacia after the idyllic island from which he rules He dotes on his four children and hides from them the dark realities of traffic in drugs and human lives on which their prosperity depends He hopes that he might change this but powerful forces stand in his way And then a deadly assassin sent from a race called the Mein exiled long ago to an ice-locked stronghold in the frozen north strikes at Leodan in the heart of Acacia while they unleash surprise attacks across the empire On his deathbed Leodan puts into play a plan to allow his children to escape each to their separate destiny And so his children begin a quest to avenge their fathers death and restore the Acacian empirethis time on the basis of universal freedomACACIA is a thrilling work of literary imagination that creates an all-enveloping and mythic world that will carry readers away It is a timeless tale of heroism and betrayal of treachery and revenge of primal wrongs and ultimate redemption David Durham has reimagined the epic narrative for our time in a book that will surely mark his breakthrough to a wide audience.



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David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham was born in New York City to parents of Caribbean descent. He grew up mostly in Maryland, but has spent the last fifteen years on the move, jumping from East to West Coast to the Rocky Mountains, and back and forth to Scotland and France several times. He currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Or. .. actually, no he doesn't. He's back in New England at the moment. He is the author of a trilogy of fantasy novels set in Acacia: The Sacred Band, The Other Lands, and The War With The Mein, as well as the historical novels The Risen, Pride of Carthage, Walk Through Darkness, and Gabriel's Story. He's won the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, a Legacy Award, was a Finalist for the Prix Imaginales and has twice had his books named NY Times Notable Book of the year. His novels have been published in the UK and in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Three of his novels have been optioned for development as feature films. David received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Maryland. He has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Massachusetts, The Colorado College, for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Cal State University, and at Hampshire College. He's currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program. He reviews for The Washington Post and The Raleigh News & Observer, and has served as a judge for the Pen/Faulkner Awards. He also writes in George RR Martin's weird and wonderful Wild Cards universe. He feels like the process makes him exercise a whole new set of creative muscles, and he loves the feeling.



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