The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
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Jin Yong
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Longshine Publishing
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The final installment of the Condor Trilogy. In the underworld, it is said that the supreme weapon, the Dragon Slaying Saber, commands the realm with unmatched authority. For a century, this legendary saber has sparked fierce competition among martial artists. As the Mongol Empire crumbles and chaos engulfs the land, the reappearance of the Dragon Slaying Saber will stir up unprecedented turbulence.
Jin Yong, born Cha Leung-yung in 1924 in Haining, Zhejiang, was a journalist, translator, editor, screenwriter, and director. In 1959, he founded the Ming Pao in Hong Kong, publishing newspapers, magazines, and books. He began serializing his first martial arts novel, The Book and the Sword, in 1955 under the pen name Jin Yong. Over time, he authored fifteen martial arts novels, pioneering a new genre in modern Chinese literature. His works have become a shared cultural language among Chinese-speaking communities worldwide, sparking academic research both domestically and internationally. His collected works have been published in both simplified and traditional Chinese, with translations available in English, French, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and more.
