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FROM: "Beth Andersen" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 3:48 PM

Every single clue listed below for this title is an uncertainty. If you can
come up with a title, you are a genius.

Setting is probably China.
Author's first name may be Bruce
Words in the title may be (but may NOT be): jade, green and/or mountain
Emperors may or may not feature in the story.

Patron IS pretty sure it's a fantasy.

Thanks.

Beth

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FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 4:09 PM

Beth,
How about one of the Barry Hughart's delightful, fantasy/historical fiction
trilogy set in "an ancient China that never was."
The Bridge of Birds, Ballantine, 1984
The Story of the Stone, Fondation Books/Doubleday 1988
Eight Skilled Gentlemen, Doubleday, 1991

It's been a while since I read these, but parts of Eight Skilled
Gentleman take place in the Forbidden City.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
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Cedarville, OH 45314

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-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Andersen [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:42 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: novel about Dhina


Every single clue listed below for this title is an uncertainty. If you can

come up with a title, you are a genius.

Setting is probably China.
Author's first name may be Bruce
Words in the title may be (but may NOT be): jade, green and/or mountain
Emperors may or may not feature in the story.

Patron IS pretty sure it's a fantasy.

Thanks.

Beth

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 4:09 PM

At 09:42 PM 2/7/02, you wrote:
>Every single clue listed below for this title is an uncertainty. If you can
>come up with a title, you are a genius.
>
>Setting is probably China.
>Author's first name may be Bruce
>Words in the title may be (but may NOT be): jade, green and/or mountain
>Emperors may or may not feature in the story.
>
>Patron IS pretty sure it's a fantasy.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Beth

Wild guess: one of Barry Hughart's three wonderful Chinese
fantasies--BRIDGE OF BIRDS; STORY OF THE STONE; EIGHT SKILLED
GENTLEMEN (reprinted in an omnibus volume as THE CHRONICLES
OF MASTER LI AND NUMBER TEN OX in 1998)?

These are fantasies set in China, and "Barry" is close to
"Bruce," and I believe an emperor or two appears. No title
word matches, though. First published in 1984, 1988, 1991.

Wonderful stuff. Unfortunately Hughart apparently has
given up writing altogether.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 4:20 PM

Sounds like Barry Hughart's chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox.
Titles include BRIDGE OF BIRDS, THE STORY OF THE STONE and EIGHT SKILLED GENTLEMEN. They are delightful humorous fantasies.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
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>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 02/07/02 09:42PM >>>
Every single clue listed below for this title is an uncertainty. If you can
come up with a title, you are a genius.

Setting is probably China.
Author's first name may be Bruce
Words in the title may be (but may NOT be): jade, green and/or mountain
Emperors may or may not feature in the story.

Patron IS pretty sure it's a fantasy.

Thanks.

Beth

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FROM: Ike Pulver <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 2/7/02, 4:20 PM

Maureen,
A shot in the dark: could it be "China Mountain Zhang" by Maureen
McHugh? A speculative novel about a Chinese-communist dominated future?

Ike Pulver
Cleveland Public Library

----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Andersen <[removed]@hotmail.com>
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2002 4:42 pm
Subject: novel about Dhina

> Every single clue listed below for this title is an uncertainty.
> If you can
> come up with a title, you are a genius.
>
> Setting is probably China.
> Author's first name may be Bruce
> Words in the title may be (but may NOT be): jade, green and/or
> mountainEmperors may or may not feature in the story.
>
> Patron IS pretty sure it's a fantasy.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Beth
>
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FROM: Lucy Lockley <[removed]@mail.win.org>
REC'D: 2/8/02, 1:25 PM

Beth:

I was not sure if Barry Hugart's trilogy, mentioned already, was the title
you were looking for so I thought I offer another possibility. What about
Sean Russell's two-part series with the titles "Initiate Brother" and
"Gatherer of Clouds"? It is a Fantasy and the setting is a fictional
version of ancient China. The story deals with the build-up to and a
battle between two main factions over who will be the next ruler (Emperor)
with the Initiate Brother being the central character around which
everything takes place. Lots of historical detail about the workings of
the ancient Imperial court and a bit of mystery as to who, or what, the
'Brother' really is.

Lucy M. Lockley Phone: 636/441.2300, Ext. 1563
Collection Development Manager FAX: 636/441.3132
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