The New Novel from #1 National Bestseller & World Fantasy Award Winner

Inspired by the glory of Tang Dynasty China in the eighth century, Guy Gavriel Kay melds history and the fantastic into something both powerful and emotionally compelling. Under Heaven is a novel on the grandest narrative scale, encompassing the intimate details of individual lives in an unforgettable time and place.

Shen Tai is the son of a general who led the forces of imperial Kitai in that empire's last war against their western enemies from Tagur, twenty years before. Forty thousand men on both sides were slain beside a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself has died recently. To honour his father's memory, Tai has spent two years of official mourning alone at the battle site among the ghosts of the dead, laying to rest their unburied bones.

What's New

Fantastic profile on Guy Gavriel Kay in the New Zealand Herald
 
Under Heaven receives rave review on Bookslut.com
 
Guy Gavriel Kay featured on Penguin Group (Canada)'s limited edition 75th Anniversary "My Favourite Penguin" poster
 
Guy Gavriel Kay guest blogs for BSC Review