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Guy Gavriel Kay
Kindle Edition | Pages: 572 pages Rating: 4.15 | 12714 Users | 1498 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Under Heaven ASIN B003NX7NEM |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Under Heaven #1 |
| Setting: | China |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2011), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2011), Sunburst Award for Canadian Novel (2011), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011) and for Best of the Decade (2017) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2010), Prix Elbakin.net for Meilleur roman fantasy traduit (2015) |
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View our feature on Guy Gavriel Kay’s Under Heaven.In his latest innovative novel, the award-winning author evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in a story of honor and power.Inspired by the glory and power of Tang dynasty China, Guy Gavriel Kay has created a masterpiece.
It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory of his late father by burying the bones of the dead from both armies at the site of one of his father's last great battles. In recognition of his labors and his filial piety, an unlikely source has sent him a dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses.
You give a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him greatly. You give him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor.
Wisely, the gift comes with the stipulation that Tai must claim the horses in person. Otherwise he would probably be dead already...
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| Title | : | Under Heaven (Under Heaven #1) |
| Author | : | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 572 pages |
| Published | : | April 29th 2010 by Ace (first published April 27th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Fantasy. Cultural. China |
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Ratings: 4.15 From 12714 Users | 1498 ReviewsPiece Containing Books Under Heaven (Under Heaven #1)
After The Last Light of the Sun (a novel I didn't like), I took a long, much needed break from the writing of Guy Gavriel Kay.I bought Ysabel, but it languishes on my bookshelf even now. I avoided Under Heaven until it became our fantasy book in the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book club. Once it won the vote, I thought it might be time to return to Kay. I was a third into the book when my daughter, Scoutie, booknapped it and hid it under the love seat in the Sun Room. It resurfaced while we wereThis was everything I would expect from a Guy Gavriel Kay novel - an interesting period of history that I was largely unfamiliar with (Tang Dynasty China, specifically), a bunch of profoundly human characters in all their flawed glory, and enough emotion to more than justify the kickbacks I'm sure GGK gets from Kleenex.This book had a great deal of similarities to the Sarantine Mosaic, which is not a bad thing. History is an incredibly rich field of source material, and I dearly wish more
Here the world is all the world may be.A powerful blend of historical fiction and fantasy, Kay delivers a great story about loss and honour. This story is about Shen Tai who, after spending two years in mourning over the death of his father burying the bones and being haunted by their ghosts, is sent an unexpected gift of 250 Sardian horses, otherwise known as heavenly horses. This instantly puts him in a position of power and Tai must decide what to do with this gift. Set during a fantasized
Guy Gavriel Kay gives us a fantasized historical fiction of Tang China. What does that mean exactly? A little hard to explain. It feels very authentically like 8th century China complete with the Great Wall keeping the Bogu (barbarian) tribes at bay, the Capital Xinan, and the politics and intrigues of the Imperial court. Then throw in an element of the supernatural/preternatural, with restless ghosts and wandering undead.After the death of the honoured General Shen Gao, his son, Shen Tai our
"Because paths can and do fork, in ways no man or woman can ever truly grasp, for that is the way the world had been made." Shen Tai is a young man who, for the past two years, has worked in near isolation in an effort to pay honor to his deceased father, a well-known former military commander, in a way that wouldve been meaningful to him in life. He has worked from dawn to dusk burying the bones of the dead soldiers from both sides of the conflict of one of his fathers last battles. He
In short: Kay promises a lot, but in the end he falls short to deliver.A book always comes with expectations. General ones you have towards all books and specific ones for a particular one.I read "Under heaven" with the "SciFi and Fantasy Book Club". I had not read anything by Guy Gavriel Kay before and didn't know what to expect. I was just curious and decided to give the Kindle sample a try.I was imediately hooked. Poetic prose, slow and deliberate development of story and character, a
A historical fantasy set in far-away Kitai, a land inspired by Tang Dynasty China. One of my favorite books of all time is The Lions of Al-Rassan by Kay, so this fact along with my interest in imperial Chinese history made this book a must-read. Under Heaven tells the story of a middle son of a Kitan general who spends two years in the mountains burying the bones of soldiers from a war that took place there, and is given 250 heavenly Sardian horses for his honorable deed. This extravagant gift
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