Iron and Silk

By Mark Salzman. 5.25" x 8", 211 pages, paperback. The much-acclaimed adventures of a young martial arts master in China "take the form of a series of lightly sketched-in episodes; almost without exception, they produce the gulp of feeling you might get from an unusually fine short story, and they reverberate long after your have put them down—(NY Times). The book that spawned the movie by the same name, is a must for serious Chinese martial arts students.