Book title?
Jan. 31st, 2006 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI can't remember the title nor the author.
Genre: speculative fiction, an alternate explanation of history with some mythic elements
Setting: ranged over parts of middle Europe, including Germany and Italy,
Plot: included an inn in Germany or Poland (or thereabouts; the boundaries changed through the long historic sweep of plot) which had been around for centuries and had a vat of bock aging in the basement for about that long. There were spring and fall beers, and a once every (50? 100?) years type that had mystical properties of some sort or another. I think there was a city siege (that generation's Good v Evil battle)(an attack by the Turks?), at least one hero, at least one scholar, and possibly a midget (though I'm much less sure of that).
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Edit: It's The Drawing of the Dark (Tim Powers). Many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infinitehotel.
Genre: speculative fiction, an alternate explanation of history with some mythic elements
Setting: ranged over parts of middle Europe, including Germany and Italy,
Plot: included an inn in Germany or Poland (or thereabouts; the boundaries changed through the long historic sweep of plot) which had been around for centuries and had a vat of bock aging in the basement for about that long. There were spring and fall beers, and a once every (50? 100?) years type that had mystical properties of some sort or another. I think there was a city siege (that generation's Good v Evil battle)(an attack by the Turks?), at least one hero, at least one scholar, and possibly a midget (though I'm much less sure of that).
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Edit: It's The Drawing of the Dark (Tim Powers). Many thanks to
infinitehotel.