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Wine-house singers, empresses, angst-ridden wives, and broken-hearted nuns: poems from China's golden age.

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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 a...

A rich and nuanced portrait of eighteenth-century China...a magical book." Delia Sherman "Gently intriguing, brilliantly detailed...Lotus's singular story of enlightenment, involving a statue of the goddess Tara and the secret of a mandala, is the radiant center of these diversions." "Publishers Weekly" "A luminous, self-contained, fluid world in which history, legend, and religious quest create a portrait of an age- the glittering high noon o...

Fires Blaze in history's fantastice mirrors. A trickster monkey, divine bureaucrats, a pleasure-loving maid in an aristocratic household: all play their parts in the storytellers' games. "Larsen's time-riddling, worlds-whirling magical show takes place in the palaces of the immortals...also on the earth of medieval China (here, the Southern Soong of A.D. 1136), and spaces in-between...A quite special pleasure." "Kirkus Reviews" "Anyone with a ...