Under Heaven / Guy Gavriel Kay

Canada's master of literary historical fantasy returns with an absolutely magisterial effort that may well be his finest novel. In Xinan (analogue for Tang Dynasty China), the son of an honored general finds himself at the fulcrum of events that will shape the course of the entire empire's future. Written with Kay's signature sense of awe towards the grandeur of civilization and the forces that shape it and the lives of those with roles, large or small, to play in the drama of history, thi...