The Pillar is the head of the clan, the Horn leads its street fighters and the Weather Man is responsible for business activities. The organization of the clans is similar to the crime families in The Godfather, in which the Corleone family has a don, underboss and consigliere the clans each have a Pillar, Horn and Weather Man. After the war, a dispute over opening Kekon to international trade led to the One Mountain Society disintegrating into a number of rival clans, with the most powerful being the isolationist Mountain clan led by the Ayt family and the internationalist No Peak clan led by the Kaul family. The events of Jade City take place a generation after the end of the Many Nations War, a conflict roughly analogous to World War II, during which the One Mountain Society, a national liberation movement, successfully fought to end foreign occupation of Kekon. One reviewer described Kekon as 'an analog of mid-20th-century Hong Kong' although Lee has alluded to the setting being inspired by Asia more generally, stating that Kekon is not 'Hong Kong or Taiwan or Japan or China or any of those places.' She has stated that one of her goals for the novel was to 'write an epic fantasy that was not set in medieval Europe,' featuring 'the scheming and politics and clash of noble houses elements' in a 'different cultural setting but also different time period.' Clans The titular Jade City is a nickname for Janloon, the capital of the island of Kekon in the novel's secondary world setting. It was followed by Jade War in 2019 and Jade Legacy in 2021. It won the World Fantasy Award in 2018 and is the first in the Green Bone Saga. Jade City begins an epic tale of family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of jade and blood.Jade City is a 2017 fantasy novel by Fonda Lee. The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones-from their grandest patriarch to the lowliest motorcycle runner on the streets-and of Kekon itself. When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone-even foreigners-wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. Ancient tradition has little place in this rapidly changing nation. They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection.

Now the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city.

For centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Magical jade-mined, traded, stolen, and killed for-is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. Sword and Laser Group Discussion of Jade City Jade City by Fonda Lee How/Why was this book chosen: Veronica chose it Jade City by Fonda Lee was the 111th official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.

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