Moreover, there are still many opium addicts left over from when the “Hesperians” (i.e. This second novel of the series is set in a fantasy country similar to the post-WW2 era of Chinese civil war, with most coastal cities demolished by Federation troops who slaughtered and abused tens of millions. Except now she regrets some of those actions. Protecting her people from this gives our heroine, Rin, plenty of reason to go berserker and commit abominable war crimes. The Poppy War, the first book, takes place in a world much like China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Rape of Nanjing, and the graphic brutality of the occupying “Federation” troops (the Japanese, thinly-veiled) is grimly depicted. She sets her trilogy in a version of early twentieth century China where shamans call upon gods who give them superpowers in a literally maddening dark bargain. Kuang studies Chinese history, and more recently Chinese literature, at Oxford and Cambridge. Kuang’s The Dragon Republic has been published. Following up on my post about how fantasies set in non-Western cultures are becoming deservedly more popular, Rebecca F.
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