In the stunning third installment of Lee Young-do’s acclaimed epic fantasy series The Bird That Drinks Tears, an army that marches to certain death must put their faith in sacrifice and destiny. Available for the first time in English by award-winning translator Anton Hur.

The army that marches south does not expect to return.

Four years of war have left the north in ruins—its cities ash, its people dwindling, its hope measured out in careful defeats. Now Great General Rasu Curia puts his final plan into motion: lead the full force of the Nhaga south into Kiboren, their own jungle heartland, toward the imprisoned goddess at the center of everything. Every soldier who follows him knows the cost. They march anyway.

At the heart of the battle stands Ryun Pei—dragoner, exile, and the north’s most devastating weapon—who can feel every death he causes and causes them regardless. His sister, Sammo Pei, rides alone through the burning ruins of enemy cities to reach him before the war finishes what it has started on his soul.

Meanwhile, in the frozen wastes of the far north, three searchers have spent a year hunting the second avatar of the gods. What they find is a newborn.

And in the great Nhaga city of Hattengraaj, a conspiracy fifteen years in the making finally begins to crack—from the inside.

The fight continues. But the goals of the combatants may be shifting…