Heaven’s Favorite series by Tom Shanley (#1-2)
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Overview: Tom Shanley was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a telephone operator mother and a meat-packer father. He is a graduate of New York University, and is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."
In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.
Genre: Fiction » General Fiction/Classics
Ascent: The Rise of Chinggis Khan 1
In the same spirit as Shogun, James Clavell’s epic historical novel of feudal Japan, Heaven’s Favorite tells the tale of Temujin, the Mongol outcast who swept all before him to become Chinggis Khan, the founder of an empire six times larger than Rome’s. Book One relates the story of his rise and the foundation of the Mongol empire. In 1167 A.D., eastern Asia is dominated by three powerful empires. Manchurian invaders, the Jurchen, have controlled northern China for more than a century, and the Chinese Sung dynasty reigns in southern China. To the west, the Tibetan Xi Xia empire has ruled the area south of the Gobi and west of the Yellow River for over a hundred years. A fractious collection of Mongol tribes, their divisions inflamed by the manipulative Jurchens, occupy a small area southeast of Lake Baikal.
The son of a tribal chieftain betrayed by self-serving relatives, Temujin finds himself banished to a life of exile and poverty at the age of ten. Rejecting blood ties to the nobility, his childhood love becomes his wife and most trusted advisor as he assembles about himself a small band, his future generals, who will remain with him for the rest of his life.
Dominion: Dawn of the Mongol Empire 2
Heaven’s Favorite paints a vivid portrait of the Asia of eight hundred years ago in which Temujin’s story unfolds. Over the past eight hundred years, our collective memory of Chinggis Khan has been reduced to a grotesque caricature of an archetypical despot. Like his contemporaries in those harsh times, he proved himself capable of great cruelty. Unlike many, however, he was also capable of extraordinary good.
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