Under Heaven
by Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670068098
- ISBN 13
- 9780670068098
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Signed by Guy Gavriel Kay on title page. Novel melding together history and the fantastic in a setting that evokes the Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China, from the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning novel YSABEL. 368 pages.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Ted Brown (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 308316
- Title
- Under Heaven
- Author
- Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670068098
- ISBN 13
- 9780670068098
- Publisher
- Viking Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2010
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction and Fantasy;
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