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Title: A Past Unearthed
Condition: New
Subtitle: Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1
ISBN-10: 1529417538
EAN: 9781529417531
ISBN: 9781529417531
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 14/03/2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Weight: 41g
Author: Jin Yong
Translator: Gigi Chang
Contributor: Gigi Chang (Translated by)
Genre: Fiction
Book Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes
Item Width: 32mm
Release Year: 2024
Description:

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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