Iron and silk

By Mark Salzman

Iron and Silk

By Cindy Chang

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial ar...

The Laughing Sutra

By Cindy Chang

Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural c...

The Soloist

By Kees Moerbeek

As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal...

True Notebooks

By Mark Salzman

Lying Awake

By Mark Salzman

Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.Sister John's cloistered l...

True Notebooks

By Mark Salzman

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of th...

Iron and Silk

By Mark Salzman

An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including wushu training and life in post-Mao China.

The Laughing Sutra: A Novel

By Mark Salzman

The soloist

By Mark Salzman

"I'll be thirty-six years old this spring, which is young for a retired concert soloist, but old for a virgin. I started out as a musical prodigy....". So begins the third paragraph of the opening...