The Dome of Manas. The Manas Cycle, #3

The Manas Cycle (Series)In a legendary age when the Kyrgyz clans were scattered like ash before the wind, one man rises to bind forty tribes against the Oirat invaders who would destroy them. The Manas Cycle is a mythic historical trilogy inspired by the world's longest oral epic-an immersive saga of birth and prophecy, blood-oath and betrayal, and the terrible cost of unity. From the colt born in the same hour as the hero to the false name carved on a widow's dome, this is one novelistic path through a living tradition: how a legend becomes a khan, and what must be sacrificed to keep his name alive when the confederation fractures.
A tale of memory as weapon and shield, of fathers and sons, and of the road that carries both the living and the dead. The Dome of Manas (Book Three)The valley was green for seven days. Then Kongurbay's smoke closed from the north and Joloy mirrored from the west, while Afghan envoys demanded the khan march south. Manas chose both roads at once-and lost the only war that counts. The Dome of Manas completes Jeremy Bufford's Manas Cycle: southern alliance, northern siege, Semetei born in chaos, the battle at Talas Lip, and the death of the khan who united forty tribes.
Kanykei orders a false name carved on the burial dome. Almambet brings the body home. Bakai sings the heir who has not yet walked. And before civil war devours the confederation, the widow rides toward Samarkand with an infant who does not yet know he is a legend's son. Mythic historical fiction inspired by the Kyrgyz Epic of Manas-intimate, violent, and written with respect for a living oral tradition, not as a definitive version of it.