UNDER HEAVEN - UNDER HEAVEN 1
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...
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KAY GUY GAVRIEL
Guy Gavriel Kay Weyburn, Saskatchewan, 7 de noviembre de 1954 es un escritor canadiense de literatura fantástica. Kay estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Manitoba y más tarde Derecho en la Universidad de Toronto. En su juventud colaboró con Christopher Tolkien en la edición de El Silmarillion de J.R.R. Tolkien en Oxford, experiencia que marcó su carrera literaria. Autor de quince novelas y un libro de poesía, sus obras se ambientan en mundos ficticios inspirados en contextos históricos reales, como Bizancio o la península ibérica medieval. Entre sus títulos más reconocidos figuran Tigana, El árbol del verano y Ysabel. Ha recibido premios como el Aurora y el Mundial de Fantasía.
