Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Sword of Destiny
(Sprache: Englisch)
Wang Du Lu's acclaimed novel, soon to be made into a sequel to the Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon .
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Wang Du Lu's acclaimed novel, soon to be made into a sequel to the Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon .
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When master warrior Shulien learns of the death of her family's patron, she abandons retirement and returns to the capital to protect Green Legend, a sword renowned for its historic triumphs. But much has happened in the years she has been in seclusion, and she finds herself beset on all sides with hidden enemies, and the tragic past which she had hoped to forget returns to haunts her.In her hour of need arrives a beautiful young warrior, Snow Vase, who is seeking a master. But the new apprentice is not all that she seems. When she falls in love with the bandit Wei-fang, a secret is revealed that makes all of them question who is friend and who is foe. In an age of thwarted love, can these two youths find happiness?
Based on the original novels by Wang Du Lu, this is a beautiful love story set in the fading years of nineteenth century Imperial China.
Autoren-Porträt von Wang Du Lu, Justin Hill
Hill, JustinJustin Hill was born in the Bahamas, and grew up in York, attending St Peter's School. He studied Old England and Medieval Literature at Durham University, and spent most of his twenties on postings with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and East Africa.
He has written poetry, non-fiction and fiction, which spans eras as distant from one another as Anglo Saxon England, in Shieldwall, to Tang Dynasty, China, in Passing Under Heaven. His work has won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award, as well as being selected as a Sunday Times Book of the Year (Shieldwall) and a Washington Post Books of the Year (The Drink and Dream Teahouse).
In 2014 he was selected to write the sequel to the Oscar winning film, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
He lives near York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Wang Du Lu , Justin Hill
- 2016, 320 Seiten, Maße: 19,7 x 12,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: ABACUS
- ISBN-10: 0349140944
- ISBN-13: 9780349140940
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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