Нги Во – лучшие книги

Юную принцессу отправляют для заключения политического брака в империю, напоминающую императорский Китай. Ее братья мертвы, их армии разбиты, а боевые мамонты заперты в клетках. Одинокая и всеми презираемая, она должна тщательно выбирать себе союзников. Эпическое фэнтези о восхождении императрицы Инъё. Дочь северянина, сосланная на Юг, она подчинит себе историю и уничтожит своих врагов одного за другим.

Во время странствий служитель Тии со своими спутниками оказываются в сарае, возле которого караулит стая свирепых голодных тигров. Скоро на выручку должны явиться мамонты, но странникам надо как-то продержаться до их прихода. Чтобы отвлечь хищников, Тии начинают рассказывать давнюю историю о тигрице и ее любовнице. Оказывается, что в преданиях людей и в преданиях тигров эта история предстает совершенно по-разному. Рассказывая историю и слушая комментарии и поправки тигров, Тии постепенно добираются до сути.

Светская львица Джордан Бейкер выросла в изысканных кругах американского общества 1920-х годов — у нее есть деньги, популярность среди спортсменов-гольфистов и приглашения на большинство эксклюзивных вечеринок Века джаза. А еще она азиатка, приемная дочь богатых американцев, к которой относятся скорее как к экзотической достопримечательности, в то же время самые важные двери остаются для нее закрытыми. Но мир полон чудес, и Джордан обязательно окажется там, куда зовет ее сердце... Ей просто нужно кое-чему научиться.

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest.


Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal mammoths, demanding their grandfather’s body for burial. Chih must somehow balance honoring their mentor’s chosen life while keeping the sisters from the north from storming the gates and destroying the history the clerics have worked so hard to preserve.

But as Chih and their neixin Almost Brilliant navigate the looming crisis, Myriad Virtues, Cleric Thien’s own beloved hoopoe companion, grieves her loss as only a being with perfect memory can, and her sorrow may be more powerful than anyone could anticipate. . .

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be.

Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story—beautiful, ugly, kind, or cruel—bears more than one face.

The Singing Hills Cycle

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Into the Riverlands

The novellas of The Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih, but may be read in any order, with each story serving as an entrypoint.

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes a dazzling new novel where immortality is just a casting call away.

It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic.

“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill—but she doesn’t care. She’d rather play a monster than a maid.

But in Luli’s world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not the ones on screen. The studios want to own everything from her face to her name to the women she loves, and they run on a system of bargains made in blood and ancient magic, powered by the endless sacrifice of unlucky starlets like her. For those who do survive to earn their fame, success comes with a steep price. Luli is willing to do whatever it takes—even if that means becoming the monster herself.

Siren Queen offers up an enthralling exploration of an outsider achieving stardom on her own terms, in a fantastical Hollywood where the monsters are real and the magic of the silver screen illuminates every page.

Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.

The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord's mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls.

As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards, they are drawn into the mystery of what became of Lord Guo's previous wives and the dark history of Do Cao itself. But as the wedding night draws to its close, Chih will learn at their peril that not all monsters are to be found in the shadows; some monsters hide in plain sight.