Iron and Silk
By Mark Salzman. 5-1/4" x 8", 211 pages, paperback. The much-acclaimed
adventures of a young martial arts master in China "take the form of
a series of lightly sketched-in episodes; almost without exception, they
produce the gulp of feeling you might get from an unusually fine short story,
and they reverberate long after your have put them down -(NY Times). The
book that spawned the movie by the same name, is a must for serious Chinese
martial arts students. |