NavolaOne of the amazing feats of worldbuilding which I've encountered this year, or really in the last few years. Lev Grossman Navola is a city built on trade. Its palazzos and towers are conjured from its merchant wealth: barley and rice, flax and wool, iron and silver, arms, armies, lives, and kingdoms are all traded here. And presiding over it all is the Regulai bank. By guile, force of arms, and the cast iron might of their money and promises, in just