Full name: Silk Road: A Novel of Eighth-Century China

Author: Jeanne Larsen Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Award winners, Fiction, Historical fiction Culture: China Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780805009583 0805009582

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 Similar books: The Secrets of Jin-shei by Alma Alexander The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama Credo by Melvyn Bragg Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck Peony by Pearl S. Buck Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie Lord Byron's Novel by John Crowley Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck Wife to Mr. Milton by Robert Graves Letter from Peking by Pearl S. Buck Witch Wood by John Buchan Cloud Mountain by Aimee Liu Circe by Madeline Miller Scriber by Ben S. Dobson The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay