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Karma of the Sun

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Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die.

In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau—civilization's final survivors—are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for a father who disappeared ten years earlier, presumed dead.

Driven by a yearning to see his father again before the end, and called by an eerie horn unheard by anyone else, Karma forges into the Himalayas and discovers that his father's disappearance may be linked to a mystical mountain said to connect the physical world with the spirit lands—and a possible way to save their doomed future.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 26, 2022
      A young man stands between his people and impending doom in Boey’s whirlwind debut. Karma is the supposedly cursed son of the scoundrel Patrul Sherpa, who is rumored to have deceived their village and disappeared to search for a place that his delusions led him to believe could save his people from a prophesied apocalypse. Karma has always longed to search for his missing father, and the opportunity arises when Minister Hanumanda of the Four Rivers and Six Ranges arrives at their village and explains his very different view on Patrul. Hanumanda believed Patrul’s visions and sent his men to help Patrul find sanctuary within the Himalayan mountains before Patrul mysteriously vanished. When Hanumanda learns that Karma shares the same prophetic gifts as his father, he insists that Karma help to retrace his father’s footsteps and find the haven before it’s too late. The quest is perilous, with a path soaked in bloodshed and betrayal around every corner, and the sensational descriptions of the Himalayan landscape form the heart of this harrowing tale. Though the action occasionally gets lost beneath the abstract prose, there’s enough suspense to Karma’s journey to keep the pages flying. Fans of apocalyptic fantasy should check this out. Agent: Tamara Kawar, DeFiore & Co.

    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2023

      After the Earth is scorched by the six suns of prophecy, civilization's remnants find refuge atop the Tibetan plateau, barely surviving in a land choked by the ashes of nuclear winter. Among the survivors is Karma, a young man living with the shame of his father's disappearance a decade ago. Answering the call of an otherworldly horn that only he can hear, Karma journeys into the Himalayas in search of a mystical mountain with ties to his father and the means through which to save humanity from the foretold calamity. Reminiscent of N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season and P.D. James's Children of Men, Boey's debut novel marries science fiction with fantasy, leaning into Buddhist eschatology to craft a postapocalyptic narrative with rich philosophical depth. Keong Sim's measured and thoughtful narration fits Karma perfectly, lending the unsure protagonist an imploring timbre, an effect that makes the novel's emotional atmosphere even more heart-wrenching. VERDICT This beautifully realized audio is an absolute must for fans of postapocalyptic fiction. Recommend to listeners who enjoy science fiction that's based in fantasy rather than hard science.--Andy Myers

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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