Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Water Touching Stone |
| author | Eliot Pattison |
| ISBN-10 | 0-312-59348-1 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-312-59348-3 |
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| date | 2018-May-19 |
A female teacher has been killed and a Tibetan lama disappeared. Shan Tao Yun, the former Beijing investigator who now lives with Tibetan monks and for the Chinese government technically is an escaped prisoner, is asked by his monk-friends to go with them to where this happened. They want him to help find out what happened. Already on the way to Yoktian they find out that somebody is out to kill the teachers students, all orphans, too.
Like the other books in this series, "Water Touching Stone" is full of peaceful places, the struggle between China and Tibet, the differences between cultures. And this book is especially international, as the story is situated in a cultural melting pot: Tibetan, Chinese, Uighur, Kazakh, Russian, even American.
If you want a fast-paced 'Hollywood-style' thriller, get another book. If you are open for an equally interesting alternative setting, try this one.
