Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (simplified Chinese: 查良镛; traditional Chinese: 查良鏞; pinyin: Zhā Liángyōng), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: 金庸; pinyin: Jīn Yōng; Cantonese Yale: Gām Yùhng), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, which he started in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the Wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including Mainla...
A Hero Born
A Hero Born
Synopsis
The first volume of Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes follows Guo Jing, raised on the Mongolian steppes after his father's murder, as he's trained in martial arts by the eccentric "Seven Freaks of the South" and grows up within Genghis Khan's court. As war looms between the Mongols and Song dynasty China, Guo Jing's honest, straightforward nature is tested against the political intrigue and martial rivalries swirling around him.
Often called the Chinese Lord of the Rings for its cultural impact, A Hero Born introduces the sprawling wuxia epic's blend of martial arts, history, and romance to English-language readers for the first time in this translation.
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Guo JingProtagonist
A straightforward, honest young man raised among the Mongols, training to become a great martial artist.
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Edition
A Hero BornHardcover, 2019
395 pages
St. Martin's PressLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9781250220608
