River of Stars Author:Guy Gavriel Kay Guy Gavriel Kay tells a vivid and powerful story based on China in an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits, and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a young woman at war in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world -- a world inspired by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty. — Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he t... more »ook the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his life in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From ther 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.
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 -- and alienates women at court. But when her father's life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no women ever has.
In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.« less
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