La révolte des lettrés

T'ang Trilogy #2

by Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri

Cela fait maintenant dix longues années que l'impératrice Wu Tse Tien impose cruauté et corruption au peuple de Chine. La terreur règne jusqu'à ce jour de 671 où un groupe d'intellectuels humanistes, dits les Lettrés, décident de renverser le gouvernement. Mais la répression est sanglante : 25 d'entre eux sont décapités. Leurs têtes trônent sur la place publique où attend une autre pique, vide... Le juge Ti n'en doute pas : ce gibet est pour lui. Mais il ne désarme pas. Il peut confondre l'impératrice Wu. Elle le hait mais la loi est du côté du juge. Ti part alors enquêter sur la ténébreuse île de Hainan, une île-prison où, racontent certains, les meurtres les plus sanguinaires sont commis sans relâche par les agents de l'impératrice…

Genres: Historical Fiction

486 pages

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Eleanor Cooney is the coauthor (with Daniel Altieri) of three novels set in 7th-century China: IRON EMPRESS (formerly DECEPTION)--A Novel of Murder and Madness in T'ang China; THE COURT OF THE LION: A Novel of the T'ang Dynasty; and SHORE OF PEARLS--A novel of Murder, Plague and the Prison Island of Hainan.

Her critically-acclaimed memoir DEATH IN SLOW MOTION, My Mother's Descent Into Alzheimer's (HarperCollins), was published in 2004 to rave reviews and was translated into four languages. She's recently completed a dark-but-funny literate thriller called THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, set in Wisconsin in the present and in the 1890s. In Oct. of 2019, her true-life memoir MIDNIGHT IN SAMARRA, The True Story of WMD, Greed, and High Crimes in Iraq was published by Skyhorse, NYC.

Her work has appeared in Harper's and Mother Jones magazines. She lives in Mendocino, California.

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Reviews

[Cal · Rating 3 out of 5]

The actions and characters in this belong in the time period of the first book (Iron Empress).