#AdventOfBooks 2024 day 7: The Hands of fhe Emperor by Victoria Goddard #Bookstodon
I read this book after it was recommended here, and I was impressed
It's the story of many different things - cross-cultural misunderstandings, the relationship between core and periphery, and between between an individual and their family, defying expectations - but most of all it's the story of the relationship between an Emperor and his personal secretary as it grows from stiff formality to close friendship