by Naomi Novik · Harper Voyager · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007258727
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«Throne of Jade» is the second novel in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, historical fantasy in paperback (400 pages, in English).
During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Will Laurence and his dragon Temeraire travel to China: the Empire demands the return of the Celestial, whose egg was captured by the British when it was destined for Napoleon. At the imperial court, dangers, intrigues, and the risk of being separated by decree await them.
It is the second volume of the Temeraire series; the Harper Voyager paperback edition dates from 2007.
For readers of historical fantasy and alternate history with dragons and Napoleonic battles; continues the story begun in the first installment of the series.
Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards.
