Karma of the Sun -- Brandon Ying Kit Boey - Hardcover
"A must-read for anyone reckoning with where we are now and where we will go next." --Erin Swan, author of Walk the Vanished Earth
"Beautiful, moving, vast in its spiritual and emotional scope, I was reminded in parts of Kevin Brockmeier's Brief History of the Dead, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas." --Angela Mi Young Hur, author of Folklorn, NYT Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021
Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die.
In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for a father who disappeared ten years earlier, presumed dead.
Driven by a yearning to see his father again before the end, and called by an eerie horn unheard by anyone else, Karma forges into the Himalayas and discovers that his father's disappearance may be linked to a mystical mountain said to connect the physical world with the spirit lands--and a possible way to save their doomed future.
For readers who enjoy Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Book of M by Peng Shepherd, The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Children of Men by P. D. James.
Author: Brandon Ying Kit Boey
Publisher: Camcat Books
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.59w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780744307603
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2022
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 41
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 84
Foreword 12/23/2022
About the Author
Born in California, Brandon Ying Kit Boey spent his childhood in China, Singapore, and various parts of the US. He graduated from New York University and Brigham Young University Law School, subsequently working in Asia, the UK, and across the US before settling in coastal Maine, where he currently lives with his family. When not at work on his next novel, he can be found wandering the woods with his children, practicing law in his day job, or writing poetry.