Under Heaven

I started listening to Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven audiobook, and I'm liking it so far. It's read by Simon Vance, one of my favorite audiobook narrators (since the Temeraire series, among many others). It's set in a similar time and place as Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series (medieval Japan/China or a place like it but not it). The mourning second son of a late general is living up near a mountain pass where great battles have been fought and is burying the dead as a way of mourning his father and, well, finding himself. One day a messenger brings word that he is being gifted 250 "Heavenly Horses"--a rare gift from a king. However, this gift will be the envy of all, and he must immediately determine how he can keep his gift and his life.

I'm excited to see where it goes, and it seems to be the breath-of-fresh-air read I've been looking for.