Ka is a beautiful often dreamlike late masterpiece. -Los Angeles TimesOne of our country's
absolutely finest novelists. -Peter Straub New York Times bestselling author of Interior
Darkness and Ghost StoryFrom award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel
about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths
in the land of Ka.A Crow alone is no Crow.Dar Oakley-the first Crow in all of history with a
name of his own-was born two thousand years ago. When a man learns his language Dar finally
gets the chance to tell his story. He begins his tale as a young man and how he went down to
the human underworld and got hold of the immortality meant for humans long before Julius
Caesar came into the Celtic lands how he sailed West to America with the Irish monks searching
for the Paradise of the Saints and how he continuously went down into the land of the dead and
returned. Through his adventures in Ka the realm of Crows and around the world he found
secrets that could change the humans' entire way of life-and now may be the time to finally
reveal them.
