Dance of the Snow Dragon

Dance of the Snow Dragon
AuthorEileen Kernaghan
PublisherThistledown Press
Publication date
1995
Pages325
ISBN978-1-8954-4941-9
OCLC36621533

Dance of the Snow Dragon is a 1995 novel by the Canadian writer Eileen Kernaghan, published by Thistledown Press. Set in 18th-century Bhutan, the novel is a coming-of-age story following Sangay, a young yak herder, as he journeys to Shambhala.[1]

Plot summary

Development and reception

The novel incorporates elements of Tibetan Buddhism, which Kernaghan first discovered while editing interviews of the Dalai Lama and perusing related literature.[2] A review in Books in Canada called the prose "lushly cinematic", noting elaborate descriptions of the setting, but found the plot and characters uninteresting.[1] Mark Harris of the Vancouver Sun found the novel to be too safe, unable to "earn the disapproval of even the strictest of abbots".[3] The writer and critic Denise Dumars, however, enjoyed the novel's "colorful" characters in a review for Cinescape.[4] The Edmonton Journal's Douglas Barbour also commended Kernaghan's writing style.[5]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Books in Canada 1995, pp. 49–51.
  2. ^ Schellenberg & Switzer 2006.
  3. ^ Harris 1995.
  4. ^ Dumars 2000.
  5. ^ Barbour 1995.

Sources

Further reading

  • Lyons, Terri L. (Spring 1996). "A spiritual quest". Canadian Children's Literature. No. 81. pp. 61–62. ISSN 0319-0080.
  • "Dance of the Snow Dragon". Quill & Quire. Vol. 61, no. 6. June 1995. p. 58. ISSN 0033-6491.
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