![]() Since the fall of the glorious Ninth Dynasty, described in Under Heaven, Kitai (the name given to China) has been in decline their Fourteen Prefectures have been lost to barbarians from the northern steppes, and their once mighty empire is no more. The world to which I’m referring is a thinly disguised version of China during the time of the Song Dynasty – or Twelfth Dynasty, as it is called in the novel. However, the world Kay creates in this novel has been shaped by the events of the previous one, so that’s something worth bearing in mind. River of Stars is a sequel to an earlier novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven, but being set several centuries apart, the two books stand alone and it’s not essential to read them in order. ![]()
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