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Sto caricando le informazioni... le parole segrete di JIN-SHEI (2004)di Alma Alexander
  
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“Mine was the time of love and fire, of pain, of loss, of joy, of grief, of greed and arrogance and dreams and betrayals …of the bond of jin-shei, the sisterhood of woman which shaped the world I was born into.” So speaks Kito-Tai in the year 28 of the Star Emperor in a mythical Chinese kingdom. These familiar themes are no less satisfying because of the fascinating way Alexander weaves them through the lives of eight dynamic characters. Although historically disconnected from any particular period of Chinese history, elements of this story reveal the protective, secretive world of royalty and common folk that one might imagine in any century of ancient China. The Secrets of Jin-Shei is an intriguing and fascinating read. In a mythical Chinese kingdom, members of an ancient sisterhood fight, die, and practice sorcery for one another as they struggle to survive. In the semifeminist kingdom of Syai, young girls, whether heirs to the throne or daughters of seamstresses, vow eternal loyalty to those of their peers whom they find compatible. The oath of jin-shei that they take imposes numerous obligations and transcends all other loyalties.... Full indeed, and yet, even so, more episodic than epic. Premi e riconoscimenti
Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: A group of women, the jin-shei sisterhood, form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfill their destiny. The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them. An amazing and unusual book, based on some historical fact, full of drama, adventure and conflict like a Shakespearean history play, it's a novel about kinship and a society of women, of mysticism, jealousy, fate, destiny, all set in the wonderful, swirling background of Syai, a fantasy kingdom inspired by Imperial China. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Autore LibraryThingAlma Alexander è un Autore di LibraryThing, un autore che cataloga la sua biblioteca personale su LibraryThing. Chiacchierata con l'autoreAlma Alexander ha chattato con gli iscritti a LibraryThing da Nov 2, 2009 a Nov 13, 2009. Guarda la chat. Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.95)
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