One century before Islam...
The Arabian Peninsula teems with tribes embroiled in conflict.
Out of this cauldron comes an insistent romance...
Somewhere between legend, myth, and history, sits Antara ibn Shaddad.
In the century before Islam, in the harshest environment in the known world, this greatest of Arabian warriors struggles to ascend from slavery to the heights of his society, blasting through prejudice with the quickness of his sword, the incandescence of his temper, and the transcendence of his verse. But there is a cost for everything.
Can he gain the whole world for himself and his family while keeping his soul?
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Tade Thompson is the author of numerous novels, including the critically acclaimed sci-fi novel Rosewater, the first in his award-winning Wormwood Trilogy, Making Wolf, and most recently Far From the Heaven, as well as the Molly Southbourne series of novellas and several short stories.He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle award, and the Julia Verlange award, and been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the Shirley Jackson Prize, among others. Many of his titles are currently in development for film and TV adaptation. Born in London to Yoruba parents, he lives and works on the south coast of England where he battles an addiction to books.