Karma of the Sun
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
“A thoughtful read perfect for this moody season.” —Wall Street Journal
“Karma of the Sun is a not-to-miss debut from a ridiculously talented newcomer.” —Locus Magazine
“Beautiful, moving, vast in its spiritual and emotional scope . . .” —Angela Mi Young Hur, author of Folklorn, NYT Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021
Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die.
In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau—civilization’s final survivors—are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for a father who disappeared ten years earlier, presumed dead.
Driven by a yearning to see his father again before the end, and called by an eerie horn unheard by anyone else, Karma forges into the Himalayas and discovers that his father’s disappearance may be linked to a mystical mountain said to connect the physical world with the spirit lands—and a possible way to save their doomed future.
For readers who enjoy Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Book of M by Peng Shepherd, The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Children of Men by P. D. James.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A young man stands between his people and impending doom in Boey's whirlwind debut. Karma is the supposedly cursed son of the scoundrel Patrul Sherpa, who is rumored to have deceived their village and disappeared to search for a place that his delusions led him to believe could save his people from a prophesied apocalypse. Karma has always longed to search for his missing father, and the opportunity arises when Minister Hanumanda of the Four Rivers and Six Ranges arrives at their village and explains his very different view on Patrul. Hanumanda believed Patrul's visions and sent his men to help Patrul find sanctuary within the Himalayan mountains before Patrul mysteriously vanished. When Hanumanda learns that Karma shares the same prophetic gifts as his father, he insists that Karma help to retrace his father's footsteps and find the haven before it's too late. The quest is perilous, with a path soaked in bloodshed and betrayal around every corner, and the sensational descriptions of the Himalayan landscape form the heart of this harrowing tale. Though the action occasionally gets lost beneath the abstract prose, there's enough suspense to Karma's journey to keep the pages flying. Fans of apocalyptic fantasy should check this out.
Customer Reviews
Hmmmmm
I kept reading but in the end it was a tiny bit annoying….maybe I am not zen enough!