5/23/2023 0 Comments Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay![]() ![]() Tai makes wise choices, but Kay constantly challenges his readers to ask themselves what they would do in similar circumstances. Readers accompany Tai on a journey that repeatedly tests his loyalty to family, friends, traditions, country, and honour. His novels, including Ysabel, Sailing to Sarantium, and those that comprise the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, are filled with the great questions that have bedevilled mankind throughout the ages and continue to gnaw at our psyches. Kay is a philosopher at heart with far more to offer than comic book representations of clanging swords and perfumed seductresses. It is a place of seductive princesses, cruel villains, brave warriors, unending duplicity, and difficult choices. The setting evokes the Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China, but Kay calls his imagined land Kitai. This is merely one of the many dilemmas Shen Tai faces in Guy Gavriel Kay’s new historical fantasy novel. But death could also come should he annoy Precious Consort and rebuff her overt sexual advances. Tai realizes that dallying with the flirtatious Jian could result in his death at the hands of the jealous emperor. Do you know the most enjoyable way to share lychee fruit?” ![]() “Will you take a lychee?” Jian asks the virtuous and virile Shen Tai. She is stunningly beautiful and cunningly dangerous. Jian is known as Precious Consort, the favoured companion of Emperor Taizu. In a land far away and a time long ago, the devious Wen Jian sits inside a silk-curtained sedan chair being carried through the streets of Xinan. ![]()
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