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In this Valley of Tears

In this Valley of Tears

Wang, Mingshu

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798248102006
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 12 2026
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A surplus man with no land, no lord, and no name beyond the one a clerk writes on a roll walks south with the crusade against the heretics of Languedoc expecting war-but the war he finds is not the one the preachers promised. He grapples with tallies, tolls, statutes, and ink more than swords and arms. The host wins not when cities fall but when the men who survived the fall learn to count the grain, measure the dues, and close the gate on those who once stood beside them. Over two decades, from the smoking rubble of Béziers to the silent squares where inquisitors weigh souls against parchment, In This Valley of Tears follows a man who wanted only to be useful and became, instead, a keeper of the very ledgers that consumed his world. Mercy becomes procedure, justice becomes administration, and the most enduring violence is that which learns to call itself peace.

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