Under Heaven
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007342013 (0007342012)
ASIN: 0007342012
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Roc+
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Epic Fantasy,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Asia,
Canada,
China,
Fiction,
Historical
Under Heaven, the first book in a two-part series by Guy Gavriel Kay, is a historical novel set during the tail end of the Tang Dynasty in China. Described by many sources as historical fantasy, I would lean more toward describing it as historical fiction with elements of magical realism. In it, Kay...
This was my first book by Kay, and I liked it quite a bit. Set in an alternate version of Imperial China, it was a sweeping epic that managed to also be quite character-based. It doesn’t have any easy answers, but it’s not hopeless by any means. I did wish that the women had not been quite so second...
A fantasy novel very loosely based on An Shi rebellion. It is pretty well-researched IMO & the author was able to quote a few classical Chinese poems and stuff, & conveyed a sense of cosmopolitanism as well as brutality of that period. The first 3/4 is sort of slow IMHO & the protagonist Shen Tai do...
Guy Gavriel Kay has created his own little niche - books that are part historical fiction, moved slightly to the left, and part fantasy. That is to say, he researches the hell out of a particular time and place, and then writes in a fictionalized version of that setting, frequently with some magical...
Set in distant in a China-like country at the height of its power but at the brink of its downfall. One seemingly inconsequential man, Shen Tai, is thrust into a position of import after he is gifted with 250 of the uber-valuable Sardian horses. A man owning one of two of these horses is enough to...
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