River of Stars

Zusatztext Praise for River of Stars “ Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com “From whatever angle you approach it!  River of Stars  is a major accomplishment! the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject. It deserves the largest possible audience.”— The Washington Post “ Kay has the uncanny ability to depict the grand sweep of historical events through the eyes of those living through them...What’s even more amazing is how through his careful rendering of character and environments we are drawn into this history... River of Stars  is an exceptional piece of work.”— Seattle Post-Intelligencer “With  River of Stars ! Kay transports readers to a dazzling court and the ravages of war! with language almost impossibly multilayered in its nuance and tone! offering a series of insights that exquisitely build on each other...one of Kay's richest creations to date.”—The Huffington Post “ River of Stars  is the sort of novel one disappears into! emerging shaken! if not outright changed. A novel of destiny! and the role of individuals within the march of history! it is touched with magic and graced with a keen humanity.”— Globe and Mail More Praise for the Novels of Guy Gavriel Kay   “[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay...His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces.”— The New Yorker    “History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay.”— The Washington Post Book World “Kay shows why he’s the heir to Tolkien’s tradition.”— Booklist   “Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work.”—#1  New York Times  bestselling author Brandon Sanderson    “A storyteller on the grandest scale.”— Time Magazine ! Canada Informationen zum Autor Guy Gavriel Kay is the international bestselling author of numerous fantasy novels including The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy! Tigana ! The Last Light of the Sun ! Under Heaven !  River of Stars ! and  Children of Earth and Sky . He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic! and won the World Fantasy Award for Ysabel in 2008. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada! the country’s highest civilian honor. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Klappentext In "Under Heaven!" Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China's Tang Dynasty. Now! the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors! battling courtiers! bandits! and soldiers. CHAPTER I Late autumn, early morning. It is cold, mist rising from the forest floor, sheathing the green bamboo trees in the grove, muffling sounds, hiding the Twelve Peaks to the east. The maple leaves on the way here are red and yellow on the ground, and falling. The temple bells from the edge of town seem distant when they ring, as if from another world. There are tigers in the forests here, but they hunt at night, will not be hungry now, and this is a small grove. The villagers of Shengdu, though they fear them and the older ones make offerings to a tiger god at altars, still go into the woods by day when they need to, for firewood or to hunt, unless a man–eater is known to be about. At such times a primitive terror claims them all, and fields will go untilled, tea plants unharvested, until the beast is killed, which can take a great effort, and sometimes there are deaths. The boy was alone in the bamboo grove on a morning swaddled in fog, a wan, weak hint of sun pushing between leaves: light trying to declare itself, not quite there. He was swinging a bamboo sword he’d made, and he was...

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• Autori: Guy Gavriel Kay
• Editore: Ace Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.04.2013
• EAN: 9780451464972
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46497-2
• Pagine: 576
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 233 mm x 50 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy