The Story of Kao Yu: A Tor.com Original

✍ Scribed by Beagle, Peter S.;Winans, Alyssa

• Book ID: 100547271
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates; Tor.com
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 25 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: China,China.
• ISBN: 0765394472

✦ Synopsis

"The Story of Kao Yu" is a new fantasy short story by the legendary Peter S. Beagle which tells of an ageing judge traveling through rural China and of a criminal he encounters. Of the story, Beagle says it "comes out of a lifelong fascination with Asian legendry - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Indonesian - all drawn from cultures where storytelling, in one form of another, remains a living art. As a young writer I loved everything from Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries to Lafcadio Hearn's translations of Japanese fairytales and many lesser-known fantasies. Like my story 'The Tale of Junko and Sayuri, ' 'The Story of Kao Yu' is a respectful imitation of an ancient style, and never pretends to be anything else. But I wrote it with great care and love, and I'm still proud of it. "At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

✦ Subjects

China