books by Barry Hughart     books:       Bridge of Birds167 reviews Barry Hughart Legend, 1986 A Recent Favorite Discovery This novel of an 'Ancient China that Never Was' is a brilliant gem of interweaving storylines that made me both smile and cry. It was alternately silly and beautiful, so much so that I want to use overblown adjectives to describe it. Basically, it was about a man looking to find a cure for a disease affecting the children of his village, but it turns out to be so much more. When first ...             The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox ( Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone & Eight Skilled ...2 reviews Barry Hughart The Stars Our Destination, 1998 Great Book for Everyone The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart is a work of sheer outlandish fiction. It is a beast of a book at 652 pages long and is not for the faint of literary heart, but once you finish the book, you realize how much you really loved it and wanted more. This book fulfill the axiom of "you don't know what you have until it is gone". The use of cliffhangers made this plot ...             Eight Skilled Gentlemen17 reviews Barry Hughart Broadway, 1990 If only there were more This is the last book released by Mr. Hughart. It was supposed to be the third in a series of seven, but due to compensation differences, he elected not to continue writing. It's a darn shame because his novels of a China that never was are truly wonderful. The third adventure of Master Li and Number Ten Ox involves murder, mayhem, and magic aplenty, with lots of Chinese literary references ...             The Story of the Stone14 reviews Barry Hughart Doubleday, 1988 The Second Best Book You've Never Read This is Hughart's second book, and the second Master Li and Number Ten Ox adventure. And while this book doesn't have quite the sheer delight of the first, "Bridge of Birds," it is still a wonderful adventure set in the same mythical China. And this novel confirms what you suspected after "Bridge of Birds" - Hughart is no fluke. Chinese peasant Number Ten Ox, Master Li's client in the first ...             BRIDGE OF BIRDS BARRY HUGHART CORGI, 1986             Der Stein des Himmels Barry Hughart Piper Verlag GmbH, 2004             La magnificence des oiseaux Barry Hughart Denoël, 2000             La légende de la pierre Barry Hughart, Parick Marcel Denoël, 2001             The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox Barry Hughart Subterranean, 2008 An omnibus containing the three Master Li and Number Ten Ox novels: BRIDGE OF BIRDS, THE STORY OF THE STONE, and EIGHT SKILLED GENTLEMEN.             Huit honorables magiciens Barry Hughart, patrick Marcel Denoël, 2001             Die Insel der Mandarine Barry Hughart Piper Verlag GmbH, 2004              search for books birds, bridge, chronicles, eight, gentlemen, himmels, honorables, huit, insel, légende, magiciens, magnificence, mandarine, master, number, oiseaux, pierre, skilled, stein, stone, story, ten books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Favourite Hymns Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox