Past Unearthed

Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1

English language

Published June 27, 2023 by Quercus.

ISBN:
9781529417500

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4 stars (2 reviews)

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reviewed A Past Unearthed by Jin Yong

The first part of a story; personal relationships entangled in combat, history, and politics

4 stars

I am very much a beginner when it comes to wuxia literature, and in particular to the work of its extraordinary master in Jin Yong/Louis Cha.

Over the past few years the first books of the great wuxia epic described as stories of the Condor Heroes have seen new official translations. The Legends of the Condor Heroes has been published as a quartet, and now this is the first book in a new series, Return of the Condor Heroes.

We're in a new generation, and off to an inauspicious start as the son of Yang Kang, a boy called Penance, has a difficult and messy induction into the martial world of the wulin and the jianghu. I won't say much about the plot - it meanders in the way that you might expect from what was serialised fiction in its initial publication - but the ways in which everything that …

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