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Under Heaven

By: ROC

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (ROC)

Last Stocked on 12/28/2020

Product Info

Title
Under Heaven
Publisher
ROC
Product Line
Category
Sub-category
Author
Guy Gavriel Kay
Publish Year
2011
Pages
608
Dimensions
6x9x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147674147
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

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…