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Returning to Ku-fu to see if their latest cure will work.Įventually, Hughart does tie all the episodes together in a masterful way which will send Unrelated to everything which has happened before, although the two adventurers keep

Each quest involves the two in tall tales, seemingly Number Ten Ox and Li Kao use wiles, deceit, and occasionally Number Ten Ox's strength The remainder of the novel proceeds in a very episodic nature as Number Ten OxĪnd Li Kao track down the various requirements for a cure. When he visits Ku-fu, he quickly diagnoses the Look into the case despite the small retainer. Master Li Kao, a self-described scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Lack of funds, Number Ten Ox has a difficult time finding a sage, until he stumbles across Is sent by the village elders to Peking to find a sage who can help cure the children. One of the villagers, Lu Yu (usually called Number Ten Ox), Poetry, in places employing poetic devices or "word music."īridge of Birds begins with the children of the seventh-century Chinese village of Ku-fuįalling prey to a strange plague. The author'sĭescriptions are gloriously vivid, and much of the prose flows along lyrically like Whom I'm not dissing, BTW - Tim may not like her, but I do). Simply and almost modernly that is, the dialogue is modern in nature with the authorĭisdaining to write the English in the style of "direct translation" (a la Pearl Buck, The author hasn't turned out any novels since 1990 (Iįor one hope he gets going again, as I can use some new reading material!).īridge of Birds is subtitled as A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was. Both sequels are tributes to his skill in creating aĬomplex plot line and his care in tying all the loose ends together, though they don't

Hughart followed this creation up with two sequels which A delightful tale, very humorous, touching, and written with considerable skillĪnd wit, unencumbered by ponderous morals or cryptic messages, this book is "just a Paperback inside would prove to be one of the best books I'd read for a long, long Me for my twenty-second birthday, I think, and when I came back to my dorm roomĪt Penn State one day to open the package on my bed, I had no clue that the small Hoping Barry can be our next recipient of our Author of the Millenium award two, Iĭon't want to spoil this wonderful story for anyone who hasn't read it. I feel a little bit hesitant to say too much about this one for two reasons: one, I'm Bridge of Birds Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart