David Ball
Empires of Sand
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Mal'ta, XVI vek. Mal'chika Niko pohishchayut rabotorgovcy i uvozyat v Severnuyu Afriku. U ego sestry Marii dve mechty. Vo-pervyh, sbezhat' s ostrova, gde nikto i pal'cem ne shevel'nul, chtoby spasti ee brata. Odnako vtoruyu ee mechtu, kazhetsya, osushchestvit' eshche slozhnee: v obshchestve, gde v shkoly dopuskayutsya tol'ko dvoryanskie synov'ya, devochka iz prostoy sem'i hochet nauchit'sya chitat'. A v Parizhe rastet graf Kristian de Vris. S rozhdeniya on prinyat v orden gospital'erov, no serdce mal'chika otdano medicine… Cherez neskol'ko let vsem troim predstoit sygrat' svoyu rol' v Velikoy osade Mal'ty, kogda na kroshechnom ostrove stolknutsya civilizacii i reshitsya sud'ba Evropy. Ot nevol'nich'ih rynkov Alzhira i sultanskogo seralya v Stambule do shumnyh naberezhnyh Parizha i rycarskogo forta na Mal'te: «Mech i yatagan» — odna iz luchshih avantyurno-priklyuchencheskih sag, roman o vechnoy bor'be religiy i kul'tur Vostoka i Zapada. Vpervye na russkom!
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