Silk Road

<i>SILK ROAD</i> 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.<p>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.<br> <i>Publishers Weekly</i><p>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.<br> <i>Kirkus Review</i>