Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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Source ISBN: 978007242913
EBook Edition © 2006 ISBN: 9780007342020 Version: 2018-08-07
to Sybil, with love
With bronze as a mirror one can correct one’s appearance; with history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of a state; with good men as a mirror, one can distinguish right from wrong.
—LI SHIMIN, TANG EMPEROR TAIZONG
…peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heels of small war—until the end of time…
—ROBERT LOWELL
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