Under Heaven Audiobook (Free)

Watch our feature on Man Gavriel Kay’s Under Heaven.

In his latest innovative novel, the award-winning author evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in a tale of honor and power.

Inspired with the glory and power of Tang dynasty China, Man Gavriel Kay has created a masterpiece.

It begins simply. Shen Tai, boy of an illustrious general portion the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory space of his late dad by burying the bone fragments of the useless from both about Under Heaven armies at the site of 1 of his father’s last great battles. In recognition of his labors and his filial piety, an unlikely source has sent him an unhealthy present: 250 Sardian horses.

You provide a man one of the famous Sardian horses to incentive him significantly. You give him 4 or 5 to exalt him above his fellows, propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, perhaps mortal jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable present, a gift to overwhelm an emperor.

Wisely, the present comes with the stipulation that Tai must claim the horses personally. Otherwise he would probably be dead already…