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Jade Legacy

by Fonda Lee · 2021

Literary Fiction · ranked #268 in category

Winner · The Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, 2022

The concluding volume of the Green Bone Saga follows the Kaul family across decades as the magical jade trade that has defined their clan's power confronts a changing world — globalisation, new technology, and generational shifts that the old ways cannot survive unchanged. Lee's World Fantasy Award-winning novel completes an epic that has been compared to The Godfather for its multigenerational crime-family structure, set in a richly imagined magical East Asian-inspired world.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2021 · 2020s
Author
Fonda Lee
Standing
Essential Read

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