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Τα ’Αλογα του Ουρανού - Εκδόσεις Anubis
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People can bring you poison in a jeweled casket or give you unexpected gifts. Sometimes you don't know which is which. Shen Tai, son of the famous general Shen Gao, has spent the last two years at the lake of Kuala Nor. It was the site of the last great battle between the Kitai and the Tagore, and countless dead still lie on its shores. To honor his father's memory, Tai spends the official period of mourning trying to bury as many dead warriors from both sides as he can. At night, he can hear the ghosts of Kuala Nor wailing, and when one of the voices stops, Tai knows it belonged to someone he helped to rest. One spring morning, Tai learns that there are forces that have noticed his work. The White Jade Princess Cheng-wan, seventeenth daughter of the Emperor of Kitai and wife of the Leo of Tagore, offers him two hundred and fifty Sardinian horses as royal recognition for his courage and piety and for the honor he has done to the dead of Kuala Nor. You give a man a Sardinian horse to reward him handsomely. You give him four or five of these superb animals to distinguish him among his companions, to promote him to a high rank - and to grant him the envy, probably deadly, of those who ride the lesser horses of the steppe. Two hundred and fifty of the so-called Horses of Heaven is an unimaginable gift - worthy perhaps only of an emperor. Tai's life has now changed radically. If he wants to stay alive, he must return to the capital and the deadly entanglements of the Court. Between hired assassins, jealous generals and old enemies, every step he takes could be his last...
Language Greek