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LAS PIEDRAS DE CHIHAYA 1. El hilo del karma
A Samurai adventure in feudal Japan, 1331. After two attempted Mongol invasions, the nation decides to establish a permanent military state. Until then the highest political and spiritual authority was the emperor, but now the powerful Samurais have relegated him to a second level. The emperor Go-Daigo plans to continue the attempts of his ancestors to depose the shōgun and reestablish the old social order. For that he must recruit those among the new and powerful provincial landowners who will be willing to fight for him. A hidden boy, with the gift of power he doesn't yet understand, will be dragged by events into the troubled world of men and spirits. A mysterious journey that will show him the customs and rites of Japan in the Kamakura era, the consolidation of Japanese Zen, will take him along the...