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Original Title:	Silk Road
ISBN:	0449905233 (ISBN13: 9780449905234)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (1990)

Silk Road

Jeanne Larsen

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 199 Users | 30 Reviews

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Title	:	Silk Road
Author	:	Jeanne Larsen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	July 8th 1990 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 1989)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China

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SILK ROAD takes you into the golden age of China's multi-cultural Tang dynasty. Aided by ghosts, goddesses, dragons, and her own determination, the heroine becomes a courtesan, a musician, a runaway, a wandering swordswoman, a poet, and more.

"Larsen has used a dazzling diversity of prose styles to adroitly demonstrate how history is transmuted through the centuries into something not quite true, yet not entirely false...an illuminating and absorbing story."

Publishers Weekly

"A joyful blend of scholarship and fancy and an appreciation of the simple, strong, lyrical line of Chinese verse. But this is mainly magical fun."

Kirkus Review

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Ratings: 3.88 From 199 Users | 30 Reviews

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enjoyable...very imaginative

If you've ever been interested in Chinese mythology, this is the book to read. This book follows one female character, who has many names, through a life that leads her from one celestial world, through our world, and eventually to another. Every chapter is something different, and every story in it is enthralling. The fact that this isn't a more popular and talked about book is mind boggling to me.

Silk Road is a beautifully written, richly descriptive, meandering story of a young woman who is trying to find her family and who, along the way, finds her own power. It weaves together history, story, mythology, and poetry. Interspersed with the story (the chapters named "Parrot Speaks") are a number of fragmentary 8th-century Chinese texts, translated by the author, along with prose poems that address the reader directly.The story itself and its writing style kinda scratched the same itch for

A very good read, with a lot of Tang Dynasty history and religion incorporated in the story. I love rereading this every few years.

Silk Road is indeed a magical tale of the orient. It is also a wondrously prodigiously imaginative work of fantasy, fiction, and history.Jeanne Larsen, herself a Chinese scholar and poet tells the tale of a young girl, most often known as Parrot. It begins with Parrot stolen and sold as a slave. In following the path before her, as well as the path drawn by her longing to meet her mother, Parrot becomes an educated lute player and mistress of seduction as a concubine, an itinerant hustler

I really enjoyed this book which reminded me of Barry Hughart's excellent Chronicles of Number Ten Ox and Master Li. Complex heirarchies of gods, impossible quests, inkstones, seduction, aspirations to holiness, journeys across forbidding and uncomfortable landscapes, what is not to love? The narrative style is self-aware and will please those who enjoy post modern multi layered texts, but the story can be enjoyed without needing to know much about this.

I got about halway through the book and decided that perhaps I'd placed a little too much faith in it. It's not a terrible book, please don't misunderstand; it just wasn't something that could hold my interest long enough for me to finish it. I had a similar problem with the Twilight series. lol