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Название книги: The Year of Rice and Salt
Автор(ы): Kim Robinson
Жанр: Альтернативная история
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Another journey west, Bold and Psin find an empty land;Temur is displeased, and the chapter has a stormy end.Monkey never dies. He keeps coming back to help us in times of trouble, just as he helped Tripitaka through the dangers of the first journey to the west, to bring Buddhism back from India to China.Now he had taken on the form of a small Mongol named Bold Bardash, horseman in the army of Temur the Lame. Son of a Tibetan salt trader and a Mongol innkeeper and spirit woman, and thus a traveller from before the day of his birth, up and down and back and forth, over mountains and rivers, across deserts and steppes, crisscrossing always the heartland of the world. At the time of our story he was already old: square face, bent nose, grey plaited hair, four chin whiskers for a beard. He knew this would be Temur's last campaign, and wondered if it would be his too.One day, scouting ahead of the army, a small group of them rode out of dark hills at dusk. Bold was getting skitt
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