A Novel of Martial Arts - the eleventh son

The three best Chinese writers of the martial arts fiction, wrote Gu Long (1937-1985) novels sixty-nine a career of twenty-five years. Million copies of his books have been sold, and many of them have already been adapted several times for television or film. His other important novels include compassion and pitiless sword Swordsman (1970), The Orchid at Midnight (1979) and Hunting Hawk, the game Game (1984). At the age of forty-eight, he died of a liver disease caused by excessive consumption of alcohol. Rebecca S. Tai received his MA from the University of California at Los Angeles. She loves reading fiction adventure and martial arts drama to see.
On one of his missions, Xiao (the eleventh son, called the bandits) met Shen, the most beautiful woman in the martial world. According to the will of fate, he rescues Shen several times, which plants the seed of love in them both. However, Shen is a rich young man who is married to an exceptional martial artist. As if it were not complicated enough, has its own secret admirer Xiao, Feng, an attractive sword fighter with a lively temperament. Xiao is sucked into a boring fight for a legendary saber, the Deer Carver, and is accused of theft. Xiao discovered that the person has created a mysterious young man with an angelic face and heart of the devil. Before you can be continued, Shen grandmother is murdered, and Xiao was called the murderer. It seems that things are spiraling out of control?
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This book is the only official available wuxia novel from the long end of Gu (Ku Long, Ku Lung) in English language to be converted. Gu Long is one of the three best wuxia writer at all, detected in one of his novels is wonderful to finally be in fact. While compared to other translated wuxia novels are a bit unfair because Gu Long has his own distinctive style to write, but in the technical aspects of the translation, Becky Tai, translator, exceeded the rest, mainly from John Graham Earnshaw Minfor. Becky Tai maintained the original author's writing style and mood, even if the words and phrases now in English. In addition, thought Becky, the names and key terms in Chinese Pinyin and explained to his readers, a lot better than the change in the character's name in English or ignorance in dealing with the term "Karate" for Chinese martial arts, Minford and in its Translation of The Deer and the boiler. Overall, this book is worth every cent and should by all those wuxia (Chinese knight race) gender love is collected, but not read Chinese characters, either, nor any other Asian language, in which many wuxia novels have been translated.
As far as I know, it is the second novel by Gu Long released in the West. The first is the French translation by Christine Courniot "Four robbers Huabei is available amazon.fr. This is the first translation into English done by a professional and comprehensive Rebecca Tai. Those of us who are interested in the martial arts fiction, novels look like this, but you do not know martial arts fan to appreciate this excellent novel. Gu Long, Louis Cha has more than a poetic style of writing is unique in the style of Chinese martial arts fiction. I find the settings for his novels, beautiful green leaves a lot to the imagination. Gu Long has combined acute psychological understanding of human nature and the human understanding of honor and shame relational. The characters are fascinating, the situations these characters find themselves in a fantastic time, but that is typical of the literature on the history and fantasy. I loved this novel. This was new and refreshing.
This is one of the first novels of the famous Chinese martial arts fiction Writing Gu Long translated. It is well translated and brings you back in time to a mythical China Thousands of years ago when the Chinese martial art and beauty go hand in hand. Long Gu created the world is romantic, with different characters, both good and evil, and all well-versed in the martial arts. With the development of character, Xiao Feng Shen, and are very believable and sometimes humorous. It's like a literary version of Tiger & Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Congratulations to Rebecca Tai translation and Homa to bring a great Chinese literary treasure in the States!