A novel certainly, but the story of a great emperor who knew Reconciler peoples of the East at a time when the war was a reason to live. This is the story of the construction of the largest empire the world has ever known and that allowed Marco Polo to discover the wonder of the world. The author aptly describes the world of that time and the Mongols clearly appear to us less wild than the urban rumor suggests. What is extraordinary is that Mongolians now living in the steppe kept the same traditions and a little lifestyle away from what it was in the thirteenth century. A joyful people, happy, living in harmony with nature. A trilogy that devours, allow time to read it, it is very difficult to break away as soon as we turned the first page ...