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Availability:In StockContributor:Guy Gavriel KayAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-05-03Pages:608
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780451463890ISBN-10:451463897UPC:9780451463890Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Fantasy, HistoricalBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.25Product ID:SCTCWQ0Q89
Award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in an masterful story of honor and power. 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...
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780451463890ISBN-10:451463897UPC:9780451463890Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Fantasy, HistoricalBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.25Product ID:SCTCWQ0Q89
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.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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