Iron and silk
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Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
Mark Salzman è un acclamato romanziere e autore di saggistica le cui opere esplorano una diversa gamma di argomenti. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da eleganza, umorismo e una penetrante visione della condizione umana, addentrandosi spesso in temi di lotta per un ideale e l'inevitabile fallimento umano. Lo stile di Salzman combina un'onestà straziante con un calore puro e un acuto senso dell'umorismo. La sua abilità unica nel catturare le complessità delle lotte umane e dei silenziosi cambiamenti interiori risuona nei lettori attraverso generi e contesti culturali.






Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.
In this novel Mark Salzman opens up the mysterious world of the cloister, drawing a brilliant portrait of the rigours of religious life, and especially of one woman's trial at the perilous intersection of faith and reason.
As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.
Mit Witz und Selbstironie erzählt der Autor von 'Eisen und Seide' und 'Der Solist' von seiner wilden Zeit in den siebziger Jahren, als er davon träumte, ein buddhistischer Mönch zu werden, sich in chinesischen Kampfkünsten übte und gleichzeitig mit Marihuana experimentierte. Der hinreißende Bericht über eine Jugend zwischen zwei Kulturen.
Een wees in communistisch China gaat voor zijn boeddhistische meester een heilig boek zoeken in Amerika.