Смерть пахнет сандалом

Smutnye vremena perezhivaet Podnebesnaya: nemetskie dyavoly stroyat zheleznuyu dorogu, narushayushchuyu poryadok veshchey. Interventsiya, vspykhnuvshie narodnye vosstaniya v provintsii SHandun i chinovnichi intrigi stanovyatsya panoramoy dlya pronzitelnogo syuzheta o tragicheskoy sudbe opernogo pevtsa i narodnogo geroya Sun Bina, kotorogo prigovarivayut k zhestokoy kazni sandalovogo dereva.Istoriya o chuvstvakh i trogatelnykh vzaimootnosheniyakh, o traditsiyakh i pamyati, o sile lyudey i pravde, kotoraya priotkryvaetsya lish v iskazhenii. Netrivialnyy vzglyad na chelovecheskuyu sut, vystavlennuyu na sud tolpy, delaet "Smert pakhnet sandalom" intellektualnym shedevrom, povestvuyushchim o tom, chto dazhe smert mozhet stat nastoyashchim iskusstvom.