Hughart lived in Tucson, Arizona until his death in at the age of Search review text. Mario the lone bookwolf. Badass ingenious drunken master style exploring Asian culture rocks the bamboo. It would be a great alternative to those vampire werewolf emo zombie hordes or the ultimate stereotypes known from the psychothriller and crime genre.
Number Ten Ox volunteers to run to Peking to bring a wise man back to the village. Unfortunately, all of the cosmopolitan wise men laugh at Ox and his mere five thousand copper, all except a hung-over Master Li. Poor Number Ten Ox. He has never met the likes of Master Li, former first place scholar among all the scholars in China a mere seventy-eight years ago.
But he has a slight flaw in his character. You see, you know nothing whatsoever about men like Master Li… His voice trailed off, and he groped for the proper words. Then he decided that it would take several years to prepare me properly.
He also seems to have read all the great tales, as his solutions sound suspiciously familiar. One of the first chapters is how Master Li tricks a rich miser out of enough gold to finance their trip and gets Ox a night with the young concubine to boot.
Their third or fourth adventure is an exceptional revenge on a selfish princess, and another one a bloody mess. Hughart is able to manage the delicate balance humorous violence requires, perhaps by invoking our earliest folk tales, such as the one where Bluebeard keeps bodies in a locked room, or the version of Little Red where the huntsman hacks open the wolf to free her and grandma. Horrific, but so clearly symbolic, so clearly not real. Their adventures take them throughout China, and from one frying pan to another.
If it lacks the R. Gentle humor abounds. Li prefers the three-toed-sloth, Ox a cloud. Later, a third company member adds another angle to their bucolic reincarnation. The end was a lovely synthesis, satisfying both emotionally and in plotting, both immediate and symbolic. Barry Hughart clearly has a flaw in his character. The world needs more Master Li.
I most definitely have more than a slight flaw in my character, and I only liked this book, did not love it. Truth be told, it is a simply, elegantly written account of an oddly alternate history of China — describing the journey of Master Li and Number Ten Ox in dealing with a mysterious disease; and lots of other stuff.
I can absolutely see where someone without a slight flaw in their character would LOVE this book and want to read all of the sequels, want to take this book on dates, propose, get married and have little alternate history Chinese babies and live happily ever after.
But … you know, slight flawed character me. Writer Hughart has used this odd vehicle to create a fabulously imagined fantasy — almost a modern fable, with simple but stylish sub plots and several loosely connected story lines that actually do get tied up nicely at the end. Besides the grounding in Chinese history alternatively this just seemed untied and flapping in the wind — a fantasy that came unglued somewhere.
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