Bridge of Birds is the first installment in Barry Hughart's literary trilogy The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. It is a fantasy novel taking place in a version of ancient China wherein the regional folktales and Taoist myths are all true. The gods really do meddle in the affairs of mortals (but subtly, for reasons of etiquette), and minor bits of magic can be found anywhere. · Bridge of Birds, subtitled "a Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was," is a deft blend of real Chinese mythology, exaggerated Oriental settings and phrasings from Western fascination and misunderstanding of China, a playful sense of humor, some tropes of detective fiction, and some Indiana-Jones-style adventure in magical treasure vaults. · Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, by Barry Hughart 56 votes, % Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn/5.
Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds (Ballantine Books, ) Imagine, if you will, a comfortable little village, filled with peasants trying to get by on the little they earn from raising silkworms and other odd jobs. The streets and hillsides are filled with peasant children, happily playing together, their days filled with rhymes, dances, and. Bridge of Birds doesn't have quite the density of faux-Chinese aphorisms as Kai Lung, but Hughart occasionally inserts an excellent one. "'Take a large bowl,' I said. 'Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Hughart takes the reader to a place and time that never truly was, but is wonderful and real. Bridge of Birds. Bridge of Birds-Spoiler Free 7 44 Nov 29, The children have accidentally been poisoned, and only The Great Root of Power year old ginseng with arm-like appendages can save them.
Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, by Barry Hughart 56 votes, % Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn. Bridge of Birds is the first installment in Barry Hughart's literary trilogy The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. It is a fantasy novel taking place in a version of ancient China wherein the regional folktales and Taoist myths are all true. The gods really do meddle in the affairs of mortals (but subtly, for reasons of etiquette), and minor bits of magic can be found anywhere. Bridge of Birds is a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in "an Ancient China that never was", it stands with The Princess Bride and The Last Unicorn as a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching. It won the World Fantasy Award in , and Hughart produced two sequels: The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen. All present the adventures of Master Kao Li, a scholar with "a slight flaw in [his] character", and Lu Yu, usually called Number Ten Ox, his sidekick.
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