Title	Bridge of Birds
Author	Barry Hughart
ISBN	0345321383
Notes	An enchanting, fast-paced, impossibly epic, comical short novel that might be classified along with Gabriel García Márquez if it weren't so fantastical. Hughart blends history and myth into a seamless tapestry of fairy tales (Occidental and Oriental), mutated to fit the novel's setting in ancient China. Extremely enjoyable and entertaining. (Thanks, Sandy!)