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4.0 out of 5 stars
An entertaining read.,
By Notvinnik "MP" (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: THE RETURN OF KAI LUNG. (Hardcover)
"The Return of Kai Lung" is the American title of a book originally published in Great Britain as "The Moon of Much Gladness". The American title is somewhat misleading, particularly to those who are familiar with the earlier Kai Lung books and were looking for more of the same. It is never clear from the text that the fictional anonymous narrator is Kai Lung himself. There is none of the interaction with listeners that marks the other stories, nor are there plot details involving the storyteller himself, as in the earlier works.
Those quibbles aside, readers who enjoyed the earlier stories will probably like this humorous mock mystery novel, involving the mysterious disappearance of a Mandarin's queue. The detective is an enterprising young woman who has read many of the mystery stories of the "Outland Barbarians". Disguised as a man, and aided by the Mandarin's secretary, she uses the "Barbarian Method" to discover the solution. The style of the narrative, and the fictional China in which it takes place, are much the same as the other Kai Lung stories. I thoroughly enjoyed it. For those unfamiliar with the Kai Lung series, I would suggest starting with the two titles that are still in print: "Wallet of Kai Lung", and "Kai Lung's Golden Hours", which are also available free from Project Gutenberg. If you enjoy those, then you can decide whether you're willing to pay the rather high prices that used copies of the other books go for.
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