Product Description

This is the third and final volume of the picaresque historical romance by one of China's most popular authors. It tells the story of Trinket, an irreverent and comic anti-hero, and his adventures through China and Chinese history, spanning more than twenty years at the beginning of the Qing dynasty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1110523 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 596 pages

About the Author
Louis Cha is one of China's most popular authors.

Customer Reviews

Let's not be too unfair...
First off, I understand some fans of wuxia fiction have some problems with Minford's translations. Fair enough, there are some slips, but the readibility of this series is excellent - I would not be afraid to hand these books off to someone interested in the genre. Minford has rendered the sometimes terse Chinese into a flowing english that would hook just about anyone.

The books are printed with very high quality, but unfortunately this raises the pricetag quite a bit. Collecting the entire trilogy is going to cost over $100, for books that will in all likelyhood be read once. These books are really crying out for a nice softcover treatment that could place it in a lot more hands!

Nice end to the series
This volume nicely ties together all of the entertaining threads that have been laid out over the course of the previous two books, which is impressive if only because books two and three are compressed from books two, three, four, and five of the Chinese original. The manic pace of the first two books slows down a bit here, but it's a satisfying conclusion. A must read if you've read the first two.

Great!
My husband was into Chinese Wu-Xia. I bought this set, and he loved it! Since he got the books, he went everywhere with the book and finished the whole thing in a week. Great story, great translation.