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A PAST UNEARTHED - JIN YONG KARTONIERT (TB)

THE CHINESE LORD OF THE RINGS - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE
READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. Western fantasy has JRR Tolkien
but we Asian fantasy authors have Jin Yong's stories in our DNA. The debt we owe him is
immeasurable SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN If you haven't read Jin Yong's work  you haven't yet fully
experienced the fantasy genre FONDA LEE CHINA   1237 A.D. Genghis Khan is dead  but the
Mongolians  led by his son  continue their assault on the Central Plains. A new generation of
martial artists has emerged to face this threat  foremost among them Guo Jing and his wife
Lotus Huang. And a new danger stalks the land  with all the fury of a woman scorned - Blithe Li
the Red Serpent Celestial. It is an encounter with this pitiless foe that reunites Guo Jing
with Penance  the son of his treacherous sworn brother  Yang Kang. He resolves to lift the boy
from a life of vagrancy and initiate him into the martial world. Placed under the care of the
Quanzhen Sect at their temple in the Zhongnan Mountains  Penance stumbles across the mysterious
history behind this most respected martial school. What he uncovers sends him on a journey that
will force him to come to terms with his father's past and the secrets of his own heart.
Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang

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