Grounded in the real-world history of Chinese wars and adding a fantasy drug element inspired by the Opium Wars, The Poppy War is a dark and fatalistic tale of warfare. Kuang said Rin's life is meant to parallel the trajectory of Mao Zedong. The novel centers on a poor orphan, Rin, who studies in secret to test into the elite Sinegard Academy. Harper Voyager's editorial director David Pomerico acquired the novel after a heated auction on Kuang's 20th birthday. Ī sequel, The Dragon Republic, was released in August 2019, and a third book, The Burning God was released November 2020.
The Poppy War, a grimdark fantasy, draws its plot and politics from mid-20th-century China, with the conflict in the novel based on the Second Sino-Japanese War, and an atmosphere inspired by the Song dynasty.
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