Lian Hearn

Emperor of the Eight Islands (eBook, ePUB)

The Tale of Shikanoko 01

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands.

A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his wife to his older brother.

A mysterious woman seeks five fathers for her children.

A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne.

These are the threads of an intricate tapestry in which the laws of destiny play out against a backdrop of wild forest, elegant court, and savage battlefield. Set in a mythical medieval Japan inhabited by warriors and assassins, ghosts and guardian spirits, Emperor of the Eight Islands by Lian Hearn is a brilliantly imagined novel, full of drama and intrigue - the beginning of an enthralling, epic adventure: The Tale of Shikanoko.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509812806
• Artikelnr.: 45099577

Autorenporträt

Lian Hearn

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Rezensionen

A work as densely populated as a Russian novel [which] moves onwards with the narrative force of a flood. It is easy to let the book sweep the reader away, to engage with strange events, but very compelling characters [and] huge imaginative vitality. Sydney Morning Herald