The Shadow of the Empire

Fans of historical Far-Eastern novels will love Anthony Award-winning Qiu Xiaolong's homage to the legendary Judge Dee Renjie in this politically absorbing mystery.

About the author

Anthony Award winning author Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St Louis, US, to complete a PhD degree in comparative literature. After the Tiananmen tragedy in 1989 he stayed on in St Louis where he still lives with his wife. Qiu's sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry.

All the titles in the Inspector Chen series, including Hold Your Breath, China, have been dramatized in BBC Radio 4 productions.

Summary

Fans of historical Far-Eastern novels will love Anthony Award-winning Qiu Xiaolong's homage to the legendary Judge Dee Renjie in this politically absorbing mystery.

Product details

• Authors: Qiu Xiaolong, Xiaolong Qiu
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781448313648
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-1364-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: A Judge Dee Investigation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; China, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Historical / Ancient, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, 7th century, c 600 to c 699