- Song Dynasty (China), Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, History
Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his entire life in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later - and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles toward the court and the emperor while war approaches Kitai from the north.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 639
- Publisher
- Harper, Recorded Books, Inc, New American Library
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451416094
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Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Those works are published and marketed as historical fantasy, though the author himself has expressed a preference to shy away from genre categorization when possible. ([Wikipedia][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gavriel_Kay
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