Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart | Книги

Bridge of Birds, "a novel of an ancient China that never was," is an utterly delightful and charming comic fantasy. The narrator, Number Ten Ox, lives a quiet life in a rural village until the day a mysterious plague strikes the children of his village. Setting off to Peking to find a wise man, he encounters Li Kao, a sage with a "slight flaw in his character." Searching for a cure, they become entangled in a mystery that takes them across China and into encounters with ghosts, deities, giant invisible spiders, the wisest man in the world, and the most expensive woman in the world...