Imaginary Kings Amgalant Book 2 edition by Bryn Hammond Literature Fiction eBooks
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In the steppes of High Asia, the year 1188…
‘Jamuqa rode his trophy mare, off-white, black-pointed, on a Tartar seat, high arches of ornamental silver fore and aft. He wore a winterfur of snow leopard, near white with black whorls. The effect was kingly and fantastic he might be Irle Khan himself, the king of ghosts, in his eery splendour.’
Aged twenty, Temujin has been named Tchingis, khan over the Mongols. But only a third of his people accept a kingship based on dreams and omens. His own sworn brother Jamuqa challenges his title, and comes in the guise of a mock king against him.
The steppe has been without a great khan for three hundred years – fragmented in the face of giant China. Are dreams and omens enough to unify its peoples? What makes a true king?
Imaginary Kings is the second in a trilogy that gives voice to the Mongols in their explosive encounter with the great world under Tchingis Khan. Both epic and intimate, Amgalant sees the world through Mongol eyes. It’s different from the world you know.
‘Amgalant brings to life a complex, remote society with amazing immediacy’
Imaginary Kings Amgalant Book 2 edition by Bryn Hammond Literature Fiction eBooks
A gripping sequel to the first volume of the trilogy, in which the fate of Tchingis Khan continues its extraordinary course. The tale you expect of a conqueror—his unification of the Mongols (and thus the enormous entirety of the steppes) by dint of martial talent, native wit and bloodshed—is here well and intricately told. But less expectedly the story of Tejumin (his given name), the conqueror as human being, is also brought to the fore—in particular his tortured relationship to his blood-brother and erstwhile enemy Jamuqa, here deepened, developed … and brought to an ending that definitely knocked my socks off.In the treatment of its subject, one could say that Amgalant Two is intimately epic, given that so much of it is devoted to Tchingis/Temujin and his relationships: he and Jamuqa, he and Borte (first wife and queen), he and his various generals and subordinates, he and his various antagonists…. This, as opposed to loving and lingering descriptions of combat in such classic epics as, say, The Iliad. So, in Tribal Brawls, a battle supremely important to Tchingis is succinctly dealt with in two pages.
Not having read The Secret History of the Mongols (yet), I do not know how much of this emphasis Hammond imports from the volume she ‘expands’, though I would be totally surprised to find it is not hers. In the words of her Tchingis: “Wars are fought in the head, always.” And it seems to me that it is right to have the reader’s attention drawn to the personal in what is epic here, for tribal warfare is eponymously depicted—the steppe fighting itself, so to speak, in a kind of civil war (iconically figured forth in the antagonist/love relationship of Tchingis and Jamuqa). Those Mongols as Tchingis did not woo, he had to conquer to embrace. Hammond has Tchingis say: “The whole point of me is freedom for my people.” Tough love, indeed.
I continue to be awed by the ocean of research on which Hammond’s trilogy effortlessly floats. As for the language of Amgalant Two, it continues to be Hammond’s wonderfully personal, and (as I mention in my review of Amgalant One) definitely anachronistic voice—rich with word play, often wry, sometimes formal and hieratic, sometimes chortle-out-loud funny….
If you have not read Amgalant One I strongly suggest you do before embarking on Tribal Brawls. But if you have, I highly recommend this fascinating sequel.
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A gripping sequel to the first volume of the trilogy, in which the fate of Tchingis Khan continues its extraordinary course. The tale you expect of a conqueror—his unification of the Mongols (and thus the enormous entirety of the steppes) by dint of martial talent, native wit and bloodshed—is here well and intricately told. But less expectedly the story of Tejumin (his given name), the conqueror as human being, is also brought to the fore—in particular his tortured relationship to his blood-brother and erstwhile enemy Jamuqa, here deepened, developed … and brought to an ending that definitely knocked my socks off.
In the treatment of its subject, one could say that Amgalant Two is intimately epic, given that so much of it is devoted to Tchingis/Temujin and his relationships he and Jamuqa, he and Borte (first wife and queen), he and his various generals and subordinates, he and his various antagonists…. This, as opposed to loving and lingering descriptions of combat in such classic epics as, say, The Iliad. So, in Tribal Brawls, a battle supremely important to Tchingis is succinctly dealt with in two pages.
Not having read The Secret History of the Mongols (yet), I do not know how much of this emphasis Hammond imports from the volume she ‘expands’, though I would be totally surprised to find it is not hers. In the words of her Tchingis “Wars are fought in the head, always.” And it seems to me that it is right to have the reader’s attention drawn to the personal in what is epic here, for tribal warfare is eponymously depicted—the steppe fighting itself, so to speak, in a kind of civil war (iconically figured forth in the antagonist/love relationship of Tchingis and Jamuqa). Those Mongols as Tchingis did not woo, he had to conquer to embrace. Hammond has Tchingis say “The whole point of me is freedom for my people.” Tough love, indeed.
I continue to be awed by the ocean of research on which Hammond’s trilogy effortlessly floats. As for the language of Amgalant Two, it continues to be Hammond’s wonderfully personal, and (as I mention in my review of Amgalant One) definitely anachronistic voice—rich with word play, often wry, sometimes formal and hieratic, sometimes chortle-out-loud funny….
If you have not read Amgalant One I strongly suggest you do before embarking on Tribal Brawls. But if you have, I highly recommend this fascinating sequel.
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