Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise unfolds in dreamlike fashion, as graceful as flowing water. Liang’s folkloric prose, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, is perfect for any reader who loves to savor language: An ancient dog who is petted for the first time in centuries falls asleep “as deeply and deliciously as a sweet potato nestled in autumn soil”; an illusionist runs down a tunnel full of “fireflies and slugs that emitted faint glimmers, like whispered secrets.”
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The moment Little Yu enters the forest, the world shifts. The peach blossom petals flow backwards, stop, and then begin to spin. Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice going down the rabbit hole or Hayao Miyazaki’s Chihiro entering the spirit world, Little Yu enters a forbidden world and must learn to trust her instincts at every turn. She meets and befriends the realm’s earthly guardians – puckish spirits of mountains, clouds, water, and wind. The first in the seven-book series, Little Yu and the Treelings, Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise is a new fantasy classic. The celebrated artist and writer Xiong Liang masterfully blends ancient Chinese mythology, traditions, and tales, in a story that shares many features with the best graphic novels. Xiong Liang's ink-wash drawings are vivid and meticulous, filling the page with cave dwellings, intricate creature-made tools, towering cypress forests, and a large, graceful hound dog.
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