Take a photo of a barcode or cover
amyappy 's review for:
Under Heaven
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Another excellent GGK novel--this one was... long. I very much enjoyed his treatment of Tang Dynasty China. It may have been me rushing to finish it, but there was something odd about the pacing; perhaps in trying to cover so much, he may have been forced to gloss over some things that I would have liked to see given more time. But Kay's storytelling is beautiful as usual, and I liked the addition of the poetry as one of the novel's motifs. I may have missed it, but I had trouble finding Kay's usual clever mention of connection to his other novels, other than one brief mention of a poet's wishes for another world. The ending has a lovely reference for anyone who has read the famous poem by Li Bai (or the corresponding translation by Ezra Pound).