A fictional novel about the twists of fate, an extraordinary love, and the search for immortality of China’s first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi—also known as the builder of the Great Chinese Wall.
The novel opens up a broad, many-faceted panorama of life in medieval China, where palace intrigues, military events, and everyday life of different strata of Chinese society intertwine.
In terms of structure, the novel is a duology, i.e., it consists of two books. The first book is “Frontier Territory.” The second is “The Great Student.”
Real and imagined are organically connected in the novel, and between them you cannot draw a clear line—which gives it genuine credibility and conveys the spirit of the era.
Through the heroes’ spiritual quests, moral losses, and discoveries, the novel reveals its essence, asking eternal questions: about life and death, hatred and love, the power and powerlessness of authority.