Från Guy Gavriel Kays hemsida (www.brightweavings.com)
August 6: The following release has been issued by Penguin Group (Canada):
The world could bring you poison in a jeweled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was...
Penguin Group (Canada) is pleased to announce the new novel from
World Fantasy Award Winner and international bestseller Guy Gavriel Kay
UNDER HEAVEN will be published in April 2010, and takes place in a
world inspired by the glory and power of Tang Dynasty China in the 8th
century, a world in which history and the fantastic meld into something
both memorable and emotionally compelling.
In the novel, Shen Tai is the son of a general who led the forces of
imperial Kitai in the empire's last great war against its western
enemies, twenty years before. Forty thousand men, on both sides, were
slain by a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself has died
recently, having spoken to his son in later years about his sadness in
the matter of this terrible battle.
To honour his father's memory, Tai spends two years in official
mourning alone at the battle site by the blue waters of Kuala Nor. Each
day he digs graves in hard ground to bury the bones of the dead. At
night he can hear the ghosts moan and stir, terrifying voices of anger
and lament. Sometimes he realizes that a given voice has ceased its
crying, and he knows that is one he has laid to rest.
The dead by the lake are equally Kitan and their Taguran foes; there
is no way to tell the bones apart, and he buries them all with honour.
It is during a routine supply visit led by a Taguran officer who has
reluctantly come to befriend him that Tai learns that others, much more
powerful, have taken note of his vigil. The White Jade Princess
Cheng-wan, 17th daughter of the Emperor of Kitai, presents him with two
hundred and fifty Sardian horses. They are being given in royal
recognition of his courage and piety, and the honour he has done the
dead.
You gave a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him
greatly. You gave him four or five to exalt him above his fellows,
propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal
jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to
overwhelm an emperor.
Tai is in deep waters. He needs to get himself back to court and his
own emperor, alive. Riding the first of the Sardian horses, and
bringing news of the rest, he starts east towards the glittering,
dangerous capital of Kitai, and the Ta-Ming Palace - and gathers his
wits for a return from solitude by a mountain lake to his own
forever-altered life.
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About the Author
Guy Gavriel Kay is the author of ten novels and a volume of poetry. His eleventh work of fiction, Under Heaven, will be published by Viking Canada in April 2010, and by Penguin US and HarperCollins UK in May 2010.
Kay's fiction has sold over 3 million copies and been published in
more than 25 languages around the world. He is the winner of the 2008
World Fantasy Award for Ysabel, which has been optioned for feature film release by Maryke McEwen of Kinetic Productions, the Gemini-winning producer of Street Legal and The Diary of Evelyn Lau and Jeanne Strømberg and Alan Hausegger of StrømHaus Productions, who created the film adaptation of Linda Svendson's Marine Life starring Cybill Shepherd.
Kay's novel The Lions of Al-Rassan has also been optioned for feature film and is being developed by director Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond) and Cathy Schulman (Crash) of Mandalay Pictures.
Kay is a recipient of the International Goliardos Prize for his
contributions to the literature of the fantastic. At the outset of his
career, he was retained by the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien to assist in
the editorial construction of Tolkien's posthumously published, The Silmarillion.
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Från Guy Gavriel Kays hemsida:By Guy Gavriel Kay (Ggk) on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 10:35 am:
I can now, happily, report that the new novel is drafted, as of last week, and has been sent to various editors, agents, and one Meghnagi-Bailey.
Further details must await publisher-consultation as I have promised to let them shape the rollout of information. I don't think I am undermining them, however, if I tell brightweavings that publication is scheduled for spring 2010 in all the English-language markets.
GGK
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