by Shan Sa · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226208446
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«La Cithare nue» is the historical novel by Shan Sa, published by Albin Michel in paperback (325 pages, in French).
A woman of illustrious lineage, hostage to a war captain, crosses a ravaged country. An orphaned luthier, the only one capable of building the seven-stringed silk zither invented by the god Fu Xi, will give voice to the wood of an imperial sarcophagus. Love is reborn beyond the centuries.
Published in 2010, the work combines historical fiction and romance, and is set in fifth-century China.
Will appeal to readers of historical fiction and romances set in ancient China.
Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni, a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress (2006). She was awarded chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in July 2009 and chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in May 2011.
