The Silk Road
(eAudiobook)
A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature. The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there-paths on which they still seem to be traveling. The Silk Road also begins in rivalrous skirmishing for favor, in the protected Eden of childhood, and it ends in the harrowing democracy of mortality, in sickness and loss and death. Kathryn Davis' sleight of hand brings the past, present, and future forward into brilliant coexistence; in an endlessly shifting landscape, her characters make their way through ruptures, grief, and apocalypse, from existence to nonexistence, from embodiment to pure spirit. Since the beginning of her extraordinary career, Davis has been fascinated by journeys. Her books have been shaped around road trips, walking tours, hegiras, exiles: and now, in this triumphant novel, a pilgrimage. The Silk Road is her most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle; supple and mesmerizing, the journey here is not undertaken by a single protagonist but by a community of separate souls-a family, a yoga class, a generation. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating.
Notes
Davis, K., & Jennings, L. (2019). The Silk Road. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Davis, Kathryn and Laura, Jennings. 2019. The Silk Road. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Davis, Kathryn and Laura, Jennings, The Silk Road. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Davis, Kathryn, and Laura Jennings. The Silk Road. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2019.
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