Naalia de Sanar

Naalia of Sanar

“In the depths of the northern lands where the heavens merge with the icy mountains the Manor of Chicharak can be found. That is the centre of the world.”
A mysterious traveller entrusts Naalia of Sanar with a child that she adopts and calls Silgan. A child whose very survival is at stake.
From the icefields of Chicharak to the city of Oemess, along the uncharted roads of Narmendie, a faceless man is set on destroying Silgan. He uses the advancing hordes of Sequençaire, the conquering prince, as cover.
But for what dark purpose? Does the barbarian world dominated by the Occitanian Empire hide yet another world?

Jean-Pierre Fontana was born in 1939 of Italian parents in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Passionately interested since childhood in science fiction, Jean-Pierre Fontana started by editing in the sixties the first French fanzine, Mercury, solely on the subject of Fantasy cinema. A founder and president of the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction Française, which has since become the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and a critic and essayist (Fiction, l'Ecran Fantastique...), Jean-Pierre Fontana has collaborated in the production of several encyclopaedias devoted to the genre, both in France and in Italy.
He is the author of about fifty short stories and seventeen novels, notably La Geste du Halaguen (the Cycle of Halaguen). Since 2001 he has been teaching courses on the literature of the imaginary at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand.

His website: http://www.noosfere.com/heberg/fontana/