![]() ![]() ![]() At a time when many women fear even stepping outside their homes, Meng disguises herself as a man and begins a perilous journey of deliverance. Fan has been missing for a year when his wife, Meng, decides to do the impossible-to leave everyone and everything she knows in a daunting effort to find him. Yet even this famed fortification has weaknesses, and against his will, a talented Chinese craftsman is taken from his home and wife, so that he may labor alongside the wall’s defenders. All that prevents the violent end of a dynasty is the Great Wall. ![]() The year is 1548, and the Chinese Empire faces an imminent Mongol invasion. Now, with Unbound, Shors recreates an ancient and celebrated Chinese legend about a pair of young lovers separated by war and the Great Wall. John Shors reimagined one of the world’s greatest love stories-the romance that inspired the Taj Mahal-in his critically acclaimed, international bestseller Beneath a Marble Sky. ![]()
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