Delight, verve, brio, glee, panache, all of these are in Barry Hughart’s Bridge of Birds, the first of three books in the chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, set in what he calls “an ancient China that never was.” Here is how it starts: I shall clasp my hands together and bow to …
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Mar 15 2015
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Fabulous Ones, Fantasy, Mythology
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