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Novel viewpoint of the women in Genghis Khan's life, all of whom were strong and resilient enough to survive in a harsh and unforgiving environment with harsh and unforgiving men. The Mongols were fierce warriors who learned to ride horses almost before learning to walk - the women were also excellent riders who knew how to shoot an arrow, though most of their activity was domestic. The story details Genghis Khan's rise from a young and ambitious warrior to the conqueror of much of the known world. The fabled Kublai Khan was his grandson.

The story is told from the point of view of four women who were close to him, and covers several decades, so we read of their youth and ultimate decline into old age. The look at domestic life is up close and personal - delicate Western sensibilities may find the Mongol men's dirty, smelly, often drunken lifestyle off-putting, and that's before you even get to the descriptions of what everyone ate, which may provoke a strong ewww reaction. This is why I especially sympathized with Katima, a fastidious, refined Persian woman who is taken as a slave from the beautiful and cultured city of Nashapur when one of the Khan's daughters orders it destroyed. Her ordeal and ultimate reconciliation with her new life are a remarkable story.

I found this book more engaging than the two earlier books I'd read by Ms. Thornton, though they were very good. It's clear the author did an impressive amount of research, which pays off in a deeply absorbing book.


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The Tiger Queens Stephanie Thornton 9780451417800 Books Reviews

Very good book. Historical fiction teaches without the dryness of most textbooks. The major characters and events are historically accurate, and detailed occurrences, conversations, and relationships are created to support the facts and move the story along.
Thornton has done an excellent job of teaching about Ghengis Khan and the way his tribes lived, the details of their everyday lives, their homes, clothing, foods, and values. And she's told the story through the eyes of the female leaders of his family. I was amazed to learn that he employed scribes and kept a series of journals documenting his life and his battles. And that the journals still exist. She has mined these resources and others, and told a wonderfully precise story of Ghengis and his peoples. At the book's end, the author explains what is and isn't factual in her writing, how people who really lived were combined into single representative characters, what is real and what was made up.
Borte, Toregene, Alaqai, Fatima, and Sorkhokhtani, in turn, narrate the story of the power behind the Mongol Empire, from the youth of Genghis’s rule through the time of Mongke, Kublai’s older brother. Each woman’s piece of the story grips the reader in its tension and conflict, sometimes unresolved. Each loves her husband (or one of them), but finds frustration in the custom of having her marriage dictated by the Khan of Khans, making alliances or forestalling disputes in the ever-expanding empire, rather than being allowed to follow her heart’s wishes. Thorne’s research is impeccable, and the reading interest is special she creates interesting, complex characters who find themselves in very plausible plot situations that move us forward from one intriguing scene to another, from the sweeping steppes beneath the Eternal Blue Sky to the walls of besieged city of Nishapur and the birth of a repressed revenge. Iggulden followers will recognize the unfolding events’ parallels with Genghis Birth of an Empire, as well as noting circumstances where the two authors invented divergent interpretations of the historical details. Very fine writing from a sensitive, discerning imagination.
I have read this book three times in as many weeks - it's _that_ good. It begins with the Story of Borte, a ten year old girl living in twelfth century Mongolia. All she knows of life is the area where her tribe has set up its tents - called Gers, and the predictions her mother makes by casting bones and seeing what the spirits says. And what the spirits say about her is a doozy -- that she will cause wars! Her mother has kept this a secret so that her daughter has some chance of marrying. Before her eleventh birthday, Borte is contracted to Temujin, a filthy young boy with beautiful eyes whom the world will later know as Genghis Khan. In no time, we will learn about the harsh conditions that Borte's people live under, just to survive under the endless blue sky. Women must be as strong as men (or stronger) to keep themselves and their children alive during decades of constant war in a land that barely allows people to eke a living from it.

The book is divided into four parts First we learn the story of Borte, then her daughter, a captive slave and daughter in law of hers, and how all their lives entwine under the endless blue sky, which watches but does nothing to change or help the situation. It's a book I never, ever thought I'd like, but discovered was wonderful (although sometimes very grim). I'd make sure that no pre-teen got her hands on this one, not because it would be too difficult or because of sexual situations, but for the endless killing and violence, far more than any child should read about.

If you're an adult and want to read a story about something that would completely change her opinion about that part of the world, read this book. Seriously. you'll love it and want to read it several times before recommending it to someone else..
Novel viewpoint of the women in Genghis Khan's life, all of whom were strong and resilient enough to survive in a harsh and unforgiving environment with harsh and unforgiving men. The Mongols were fierce warriors who learned to ride horses almost before learning to walk - the women were also excellent riders who knew how to shoot an arrow, though most of their activity was domestic. The story details Genghis Khan's rise from a young and ambitious warrior to the conqueror of much of the known world. The fabled Kublai Khan was his grandson.

The story is told from the point of view of four women who were close to him, and covers several decades, so we read of their youth and ultimate decline into old age. The look at domestic life is up close and personal - delicate Western sensibilities may find the Mongol men's dirty, smelly, often drunken lifestyle off-putting, and that's before you even get to the descriptions of what everyone ate, which may provoke a strong ewww reaction. This is why I especially sympathized with Katima, a fastidious, refined Persian woman who is taken as a slave from the beautiful and cultured city of Nashapur when one of the Khan's daughters orders it destroyed. Her ordeal and ultimate reconciliation with her new life are a remarkable story.

I found this book more engaging than the two earlier books I'd read by Ms. Thornton, though they were very good. It's clear the author did an impressive amount of research, which pays off in a deeply absorbing book.