New from World Fantasy Award-winner Guy Gavriel Kay: River of Stars is due from Harper
Collins on 25 July (£18.99):
“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 — 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 towards the court and
emperor, while war approaches 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 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.
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.”
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