Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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Feb 10, 2007

Wonders of the Orient – A Jastine (Kun) Leng Column

Leng Kun’s first book, In Between Mirrors, is published by Lulu.com in the United States. It is available at http://www.lulu.com/content/254933

Praise for In Between Mirrors

by Athena Press

This book is a strong, multi-layered example of a hugely popular genre. It is fantasy and adventure, with a glimpse into a possible parallel reality of someone else’s imagining. Within a “fantasy” structure, Leng Kun has in fact created a literary novel of character and situation.

Leng Kun writes with a hand that is both sure and light. The world in which her characters move, is logical within its inherent concept. It is in many ways not too far at all from the possibilities of our own time, and in other ways a metaphor for our own reality. 

A book such as this casts a little doubt on the accepted structures of reality; it is about memory and imagination. 

This is an adventure of the creative spirit; it holds together very well, there is a new twist and turn around every corner, and the excitement and hence the interest, is maintained. A world, a universe, is logically developed. 

One gets the feeling that Leng Kun had as much excitement writing this novel as the reader will in the reading, and the writing style is clear, logical and accurate.  

To this reviewer, a very welcome element of this good length novel is the fluid, easy, unaffected and original literary style, quite unlike much accepted contemporary writing, which Leng Kun has developed.

It is pleasing to find something special in a book, and this effective and personal use of language together with this good sense of character, situation and narrative advancement, all work well together to create in the reader the willing suspension of disbelief. That is the object of the creative writer since the first story teller unrolled his mat in the market square.

 Jastine Leng

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