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A PAST UNEARTHED - JIN YONG TASCHENBUCH

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.    "Jin  Yong' s
work  in the Chinese-speaking world  has a cultural  currency  roughly equal to that of "Harry
Potter" and "Star Wars"  combined" New Yorker    "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. The Mongolians  led by the conqueror' s third son  Ogedai  have
vanquished the Jurchen Jin Empire  and now turn their armies on their ally the Great Song
Empire. A dozen years have passed since the second Contest of Mount Hua.    A new generation of
martial artists are vying for recognition in the jianghu  but as the fall of their country
looms closer  the making of a hero depends on more than mere kung fu skills.    A chance
meeting with his father' s sworn brother Guo Jing lifts Penance Yang from a life of vagrancy
and initiates him into the martial world to which his parents Yang Kang and Mercy Mu once
belonged.    Placed under the care of the Quanzhen Sect at their base in the Zhongnan Mountains
Penance stumbles across the mysterious history behind the founding of this most respected
martial school and embarks on a journey during that forces him to come to terms with his
family' s past as well as secrets of his own heart.   Translated from the Chinese by Gigi
Chang

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