A Bond Undone
The Definitive Edition

Name: A Bond Undone
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jin Yong
ISBN: 9781250260130

Author: Jin Yong, Gigi Chang

Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes #2

Narrator: Daniel York Loh

Unabridged: 18 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 03/24/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, World Literature

Synopsis

A Bond Undone is the second audiobook in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!

In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang.

Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual. But his past is catching up with him. The widow of an evil man he accidentally killed as a child has tracked him down, intent on revenge.

Meanwhile, his true parentage at last revealed, Yang Kang, the young prince Guo Jing must face in the Garden of the Eight Drunken Immortals, is forced to choose his destiny. Will he continue to enjoy the life of wealth and privilege afforded to him by the invader of his homeland, or give up all he has known to avenge his parents?

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About Jin Yong

Jin Yong (pen name of Louis Cha) was a true phenomenon in the Chinese-speaking world. Born in Mainland China, he spent most of his life writing novels and editing newspapers in Hong Kong. His enormously popular martial arts novels, including the epic Legends of the Condor Heroes series--beginning with A Hero Born--have become modern classics and remain a must-read for readers looking for danger and adventure.

About Gigi Chang

Gigi Chang translates from Chinese into English. Her translations include classical Chinese dramas for the Royal Shakespeare Company and contemporary Chinese plays for London’s Royal Court Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre.

About Daniel York Loh

Daniel York Loh is a mixed-race British East Asian actor, writer, filmmaker and musician. His first full-length play, The Fu Manchu Complex, ran at Ovalhouse in 2013. Along with composer Craig Adams, he won the 2016 Perfect Pitch award to create an original stage musical, Sinking Water, based on events around the 2004 Morecambe Bay Chinese cockle-picker tragedy, which is currently being developed under commission by Theatre Royal Stratford East. He is one of 21 writers of colour featured in the collection of essays, The Good Immigrant, which won the 2016 Books Are My Bag Reader's Choice award. He has served on the Equity Minority Ethnic Members Committee, is a founder member of British East Asian Artists and has worked with Act For Change to promote diversity in UK media.

Reviews

Goodreads review by jv on May 09, 2024

Lotus Huang is cunning, kind and quite adorable. Her culinary craftiness is unparalleled, her loyalty unmatched. And her kung fu is phenomenal. As would be expected from the daughter of Apothecary Huang, one of The Five Greats. Instantly, I love her. Almost as much as she favors the hapless, bumblin......more

Goodreads review by Alice on September 30, 2023

I read this second installment of Legend of the Condor Heroes in Chinese, as I wanted to savor Jin Yong's writing in the original. Like A Hero Born, this volume is also action-packed with a mind-blowing panoply of martial arts feats, while the story follows Guo Jing's breathless adventures in Souther......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on May 06, 2021

4.5 stars This was so much fun! And I think switching to a new translator for the second book was a good call. It read much more smoothly. This is a series of classic Chinese fantasy, being translated into English for the first time. It's filled with fantastical kung fu fight scenes, romantic melodra......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on January 24, 2019

Described as the Chinese Lord of the Rings, A Bond Undone is the second novel in the Legends of the Condor Heroes series, and it's another complex and beautifully woven tale from the most popular contemporary Chinese writer of the modern era. I admit the writing style takes a little time before you......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on March 18, 2020

A BOND UNDONE I have been looking forward to this read since I read the first book last year - A Hero Born from the Legends of the Condor Heroes series by what many has dubbed as the Chinese Lord of the Rings. This is the first time this has been translated to English since its first publication in......more