of society, phenomena (tech), places 20% Tone of book - cynical or dry-witįANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction storyĮxplore/1st contact/ enviro story - Yes Explore: - fighting a disease/illness affecting everyone Tech. of chases or violence 20% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 50% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 10% Descript. He's laughing all the way, and readers who like their fantasy in generous, self-mocking doses may laugh along with him.Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book Descript. The story combines Disney Studios, the Brothers Grimm, and Dungeons & Dragons in roughly equal proportions, with some random sex to liven up the show-which ends on a note so ecstatic it makes Snow White look like a tragedy. Acknowledged authors Barry, Hughart wrote Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox).

Book 1 of 3: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. Barry Hugharts 'Bridge of Birds' is a novel that blends Chinese mythology, history, and folklore with a unique blend of humor and adventure. Still, if Lu Yu and Li Kao can somehow May him, they will not only save the children but break the spell binding the Princess of the Birds-a lovely mortal separated from her divine lover, the Star Shepherd, when the Duke stole from her the three feathers of immortality. Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox) Mass Market Paperback April 12, 1985. Bridge of birds : a novel of an ancient China that never was / by Barry Hughart. Furthermore, the Duke inhabits an impregnable fortress, with a lethal labyrinth, innumerable boobytraps, and an army of bloodthirsty myrmidons. Their complicated adventures bring them up against the satanic Duke of Ch'in, who guards the Great Root of Power and is all but invulnerable because his heart has been removed for safekeeping in a burglarproof casket at the bottom of a spirit-infested frozen lake. The heroes are the stalwart young narrator, Lu Yu (Number Ten Ox), and the sage Lio Kao-cunning, resourceful, alcoholic.

With comic-book characters, echoes of Lewis Carroll, and Sinological trappings galore: a ''Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was''-featuring the quest for the Queen of Ginseng, a magical root needed to cure the cataleptic children of the village of Ku-fu. Barry Hughart's 'Bridge of Birds' is a novel that blends Chinese mythology, history, and folklore with a unique blend of humor and adventure.

Bridge of birds by barry hughart