'Song of Silver, Flame Like Night' follows a young girl and a mysterious practitioner of magic as they bargain with powerful forces to unlock the mysteries buried within their war-torn nation.
That's the mythical world of"Song of Silver, Flame Like Night," a new Chinese-history-inspired fantasy novel by Amélie Wen Zhao, which landed on bookshelves Jan. 3.
While writing the book, Zhao drew deeply from xianxia and wuxia: two popular genres of Chinese fantasy. The story within “Song of Silver, Flame Like Night" is inspired by a a dark chapter of history during what was known as China’s century of humiliation, a period that began with the Opium Wars in 1839, after which Chinese land was annexed by Western and Japanese powers.
“Some of my earliest and fondest childhood memories were of me perched on my grandmother's lap in her courtyard house, listening to the stories of her life. And my grandma was a war orphan who fled her home in Kaifeng, Hunan to escape the invading Japanese forces,” Zhao says. “That's when I realized that history is not so distant to us after all. It's a part of us. It lives and breathes through the generations of us and shapes who we are.
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