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Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay
Under Heaven
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Shen Tai is the son of a general who, 20 years before, led the forces of imperial Kitai in that empire’s last war against its western enemies from Tagur. Forty thousand men on both sides were slain beside a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself died recently. To honour his father’s... show more
Shen Tai is the son of a general who, 20 years before, led the forces of imperial Kitai in that empire’s last war against its western enemies from Tagur. Forty thousand men on both sides were slain beside a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself died recently. To honour his father’s memory, Tai has spent two years in official mourning, alone at the battle site amon
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B003NX7NEM
Publisher: Roc
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Series: Under Heaven (#1)
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Tannat
Tannat rated it
3.5 Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Series: Under Heaven #1 Under Heaven is a standalone book that usually gets listed as coming before River of Stars because they both take place in Kitai (Kay’s version of China) and River of Stars takes place after Under Heaven (but at least a couple hundred years after). Under Heaven follows th...
Meof50days
Meof50days rated it
Guy Gavriel Kay is one of the best fantasy writers (or writers in general) around, so it was an excellent reading journey through the fictional Tang Dynasty land of Kitai. However, the editing in this could have been so much better. Beautiful passages often were made redundant by constantly repeatin...
Jocelyn (The Reading World)
Jocelyn (The Reading World) rated it
4.0 Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Under Heaven has been long overdue for me, to the point when I was practically driven crazy by trying to read anything else. That's how high my anticipation was. This is beyond what I'm used to from historical China: rather than the chaotic periods of history when the land is split into multiple w...
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