Manas: The Brother

di Bek Duishekeev (Autore)

Manas Heritage Press, 2026

Before he was born, Beijing already knew his name. The khan of the great city set a watch on every cradle, waiting for a child the registers had named — one who would reach the root of Beijing and bring its forty peoples down. They called the boy Almambet. He grew up in a country that had feared him since before his first breath, raised among sixty mothers in a house built around a prophecy, and shaped into the weapon that prophecy required. Years later he rides east with Manas, to make war on the city that feared him before his birth. Camped at Tal-Choku, close enough now that men speak softly after dark, he tells the whole of it — one night, one telling, nothing kept back. The dragon at the cold lake he was sent to at six. Six letters from a woman he had never met, one of which saved his life. A man who took him in, and a friend who betrayed him. Forty-one graves in a forest, and two men left breathing. He tells it because a man about to be called brother should be known first. And so he comes at last to the thing he has never spoken aloud: what his hand could not do straight. Drawn from the great Kyrgyz epic, sung on the steppe for a thousand years. Not the weapon the world tried to make of him — but the brother he became. MANAS: The Brother is Book Two of the Manas Saga, a ten-book English prose adaptation. The complete four-book Manas arc is finished.

• Autore: Bek Duishekeev
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Manas Heritage Press
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798951774071