[A sweeping novelistic portrayal of the First Emperor’s extraordinary life, looking straight into the deepest reaches of the mind of the greatest emperor of all time.]
He was born in the world’s largest cage,
yet was determined to forge all under heaven into his own cage.
This is no hymn to an emperor,
but the tragic epic of an ordinary man
who, after being crushed time and again by fate,
ultimately became the very thing he hated:
the embodiment of a cold, orderly regime.
