Part of Series
The second part of a three-volume picaresque historical romance by one of China's most popular authors follows the turbulent adventures of mercurial anti-hero Trinket as he embroils himself with flair in ever more complex intrigues at court and in the dense underworld of seventeenth-century China. All is definitely not as it seems in the palace of that Old Whore, the Empress Dowager. Trinket begins to suspect an incursion into palace politics by a strange sect based on an offshore island, fanatical practitioners of a powerful, manta-based kungfu, while contending forces struggle to lay hands on the secret contained in eight copies of a short Sutra, a secret that will somehow yield mysterious power. Posing this time as a pilgrim and monk, Trinket takes holy orders in order to penetrate the mysterious Buddhist realm of the Shaolin Monastery, of fighting-monks' fame, and the more exotic Lamaist pilgrimage site of the Wutai Mountains. While his multiple personae take on the world, young Trinket experiences, with growing frequency and intensity, the delights of female companionship. This does not seem to distract him from his kungfu quests, and Trinket finds himself faced with his most important mission yet...
Author
Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies). Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games. 金庸，大紫荊勳賢，OBE（英語：Louis Cha Leung-yung，1924年3月10日－2018年10月30日），本名查良鏞，浙江海寧人，祖籍江西婺源，1948年移居香港。自1950年代起，以筆名「金庸」創作多部膾炙人口的武俠小說，包括《射鵰英雄傳》、《神鵰俠侶》、《鹿鼎記》等，歷年來金庸筆下的著作屢次改編為電視劇、電影等，對華人影視文化可謂貢獻重大，亦奠定其成為華人知名作家的基礎。金庸早年於香港創辦《明報》系列報刊，他亦被稱為「香港四大才子」之一。 Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%87... Associated Names: * Jin Yong * 金庸 (Chinese Profile) * กิมย้ง (Thai Profile)
