The Book of Crows

by Sam Meekings

A young girl is kidnapped and taken through the desert to an isolated mountain brothel. Two thousand years later, after a suspicious landslide near Lanzhou, a low-level bureaucrat searches for a missing colleague. A thirteenthcentury Franciscan monk, traversing the Silk Road, begins his extraordinary deathbed confession, while five hundred years earlier, a grieving Chinese poet is summoned to the Emperor's palace. In a series of delicately interlaced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846972140
• ISBN13: 9781846972140
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 5.3"