Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox) Barry Hughart. Published by Del Rey April , . · 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. 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 fantasy novel by Barry Hughart, first published in It is the first of three novels in The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox series. The original draft of Bridge of Birds is included in a special slipcased version of the omnibus collection, The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, released by Subterranean Press in A Bridge of Birds: Chapter 1. F AT Fu, One-Eyed Wong, Cut Off Their Balls Wang, and other eminent persons having asked me to set down the entire story of the Bridge of Birds from beginning to end, keeping back nothing but the locations of the duke's treasure troves, since there is treasure still to be lifted, I take up my writing brush and. Barry Hughart is a widely acclaimed writer whose first novel, Bridge of Birds, won the World Fantasy Award for best novel. The other novels in The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox include The Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen.
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. 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: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox) Barry Hughart. Published by Del Rey April , ISBN ISBN
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