The Ten Thousand Things : Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Paperback / softback
by John Spurling
Paperback / softback
Description
In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a minor bureaucrat in the government of the Mongol conquerors.
He is also an extraordinarily gifted artist whose paintings capture the infinite expanse of China's natural beauty.
But an empire in turmoil is not a place or time for sitting still.
On his journeys across the realm, Wang encounters fellow master painters, a fierce female warrior known as the White Tigress who recruits him as a military strategist, and an unprepossessing young Buddhist monk who rises from beggary to extraordinary heights. John Spurling's award-winning The Ten Thousand Things seamlessly fuses the epic and the intimate with the precision and depth that the real-life Wang Meng brought to his art.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Duckworth Books
- Publication Date:24/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780715649565
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Duckworth Books
- Publication Date:24/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780715649565