From 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.