Written by Anushree Majumdar |Published: April 13, 2019 6:58:38 am
Lightning ignites the sky
A wildly enjoyable gateway to wuxia fiction
It would be grossly unfair to go by the The Irish Times’s endorsement of A Hero Born, the first instalment of Jin Yong’s most popular wuxia series, Legends of the Condor Heroes: “A Chinese Lord of the Rings.” If they could, JRR Tolkien, and Louis Cha Leung-yung, the world’s most widely read Chinese author, who wrote 14 novels as Jin Yong, would roll their eyes at us from the great beyond. The global publishing industry has got to do better than treat fantasy fiction of different cultures as one homogenous unit whose names are interchangeable because they might refer to similar themes. Dear reader, abandon all preconceived notions when you are about to embark on this wildly enjoyable and nearly unputdownable novel, that, for many, will serve as a gateway to wuxia fiction.
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