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EMPEROR OF THE EIGHT ISLANDS (Shikanoko 1 & 2)
An ambitious warrior leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands.
A stubborn father forces his younger son to give up his wife to his older brother.
A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne.
A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, the Spider Tribe, born from cocoons.
These are the threads of an intricate tapestry in which the laws of destiny play out their inexorable drama against a background of wild forest, elegant court, and savage battlefields.
Lian Hearn, author of the TALES OF THE OTORI, has written a staggeringly good new epic adventure, THE TALES OF SHIKANOKO, set again in a Japan-inspired mythical medieval world inhabited by warriors, assassins, acrobats, ghosts, guardian spirits, tengu, horses and monkeys.
A master world-builder, a writer with a vast and boundless imagination, Lian Hearn keeps us captivated from the first to the last word,
LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (Books Three & fOUR of the Tales of Shikanoko) to follow in Agust 2016 in Australia and February 2017 in UK.
DIE LEGENDE VON SHIKANOKO
Herrscher der acht Inseln
Deutsch von Sibylly Schmidt
[HC Sauerlaender 08/17]; TB Fischer 03/19
A stubborn father forces his younger son to give up his wife to his older brother.
A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne.
A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, the Spider Tribe, born from cocoons.
These are the threads of an intricate tapestry in which the laws of destiny play out their inexorable drama against a background of wild forest, elegant court, and savage battlefields.
Lian Hearn, author of the TALES OF THE OTORI, has written a staggeringly good new epic adventure, THE TALES OF SHIKANOKO, set again in a Japan-inspired mythical medieval world inhabited by warriors, assassins, acrobats, ghosts, guardian spirits, tengu, horses and monkeys.
A master world-builder, a writer with a vast and boundless imagination, Lian Hearn keeps us captivated from the first to the last word,
LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (Books Three & fOUR of the Tales of Shikanoko) to follow in Agust 2016 in Australia and February 2017 in UK.
DIE LEGENDE VON SHIKANOKO
Herrscher der acht Inseln
Deutsch von Sibylly Schmidt
[HC Sauerlaender 08/17]; TB Fischer 03/19
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Published 2016-03-01 by Hachette Australia |