The Laughing Sutra
A Academic, Fantasy, Philosophy book. Laugh-out-loud funny, this book really warmed the last month of winter for me. I'm sure it's rife...
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who together travel from mainland China to San Francisco, risking everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture called The Laughing Sutra....
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780679735465 / 679735461
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This is a fable about the misadventures of a boy who is orphaned and then raised by a monk. To grant the monk/surrogate father's dying wish... which revolves around obtaining the Laughing Sutra... the boy Hsun-ching sets off on a journey with a companion, the mysterious Colonel Sun.In addition to dealing with Chinese officials and American... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Very good adventure of a young chinese man who is taken in by a lone buddhist monk when he is rescued from an almost fatal fall from a large waterfall.I kept thinking of the two main male characters several times after finishing the book. I realized that... Laugh-out-loud funny, this book really warmed the last month of winter for me. I'm sure it's rife with references to Chinese mythology that went right over my head, but Salzman leads us into the hearts of his characters in ways that carry those of us who may not catch those subtleties through a hilarious adventure through culture, time...
