The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author - a cultural monument translated into English for the first time.
In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father\'s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. in 1981, a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (1992), A Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (2004), an honorary fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and honorary doctorates from Hong Kong University and Cambridge University, among others..
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Estimated sales of his books worldwide stand at 300 million, and if bootleg copies are taken into consideration, that figure rises to a staggering one billion. and video game adaptions.
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His enormously popular martial arts novels, written between the late 1950s and 1972, have become modern classics and remain a must-read for young readers looking for danger and adventure.
Born in Mainland China, he has spent most of his life writing novels and editing newspapers in Hong Kong.
Will he continue to enjoy the life of wealth and privilege afforded to him by the invader of his homeland, or give up all he has known to avenge his parents?Jin Yong (pen name of Louis Cha) is a true phenomenon in the Chinese-speaking world.
The widow of an evil man he accidentally killed as a child has tracked him down, intent on revenge.
Meanwhile, his true parentage at last revealed, Yang Kang, the young prince Guo Jing must face in the Garden of the Eight Drunken Immortals, is forced to choose his destiny.
But his past is catching up with him.
Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang.
Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, he journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual.
The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author - a cultural monument translated into English for the first time.
In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father\'s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women
