The First Emperor and Moon Queen

With El primer emperador i la reina Lluna, Jordi Cussà reaches further than ever: to a Chinese trouble hotspot from more than 2,200 years ago. A fast-paced adventure novel about a magnetic, and almost mythical, figure in Chinese culture: Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (259 BC-210 BC). The life of China's first emperor is a cocktail of reality and wonder that has nothing to envy the Homeric epics, has an incomparable foundational hero role in Chinese culture, and his magnetic figure oscillates between divinity and monstrosity. He is responsible for the unification of the seven great kingdoms and the alphabet, and promoter of the Wall and the army of Xi'an, the end of feudalism and a rake of atrocities typical of a literally omnipotent megalomaniac.
 
A memorable portrait of greed as the great poison of humanity, a suggestive description of the cultural relations of that distant empire with its neighboring cultures, and the construction of an environment and characters that leave a classic aftertaste.

The chronicles offered all the elements to build a memorable novel and Jordi Cussà releases all his narrative torrent in an adventure that has just placed him in a position of reference among the best Catalan novelists.