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Gentlemen of the Road is a 2007 serial novel by American author Michael Chabon. It is a "swashbuckling adventure" [1] set in the khaganate of Khazaria (now southwest Russia) around AD 950. It follows two Jewish bandits who become embroiled in a rebellion and a plot to restore a displaced Khazar prince to the throne.
- Michael Chabon
- 208 pp (1st edition, hardcover)
- 2007
- October 30, 2007
30. Okt. 2007 · Two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates are variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars.
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Gentlemen of the Road | Chabon, Michael | ISBN: 9780340953556 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
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Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure | Chabon, Michael | ISBN: 9780385665438 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
9. Dez. 2020 · Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and fool-hardy bravado ... not to mention an army.
Zelikman and Amran are escorting a young prince to reclaim his usurped throne. Getting there – along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of – will be much more than half the fun.
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—as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money.
