River of stars
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9780007521906; 9780007521913
Subjects: Song Dynasty (China); Imaginary places - Fiction; Fantasy fiction; China - History - Song dynasty, 960-1279 - Fiction; Fiction; Historical fiction; Fathers and daughters - Fiction; History
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: 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 life; title: in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later; title: and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north.Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor; title: and alienates women at the court. But when her father's life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has.