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River of Stars by Kay, Guy Gavriel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven , Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by Chinas Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world a world inspired this time by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty. 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 lifein entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years laterand 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 emperorand alienates women at the court. But whe

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Author
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Publisher
Roc Hardcover
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780143188698
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
Rating
4.08 / 5 (49 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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