The Story of Kao Yu by Peter S. Beagle

The Story of Kao Yu by Peter S. Beagle
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Historical
Length: Short Story (29 pages)
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

“The Story of Kao Yu” is a new fantasy short story by the legendary Peter S. Beagle which tells of an aging judge traveling through rural China and of a criminal he encounters. Of the story, Beagle says it “comes out of a lifelong fascination with Asian legendry — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Indonesian — all drawn from cultures where storytelling, in one form of another, remains a living art. As a young writer I loved everything from Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries to Lafcadio Hearn’s translations of Japanese fairytales and many lesser-known fantasies. Like my story ‘The Tale of Junko and Sayuri,’ ‘The Story of Kao Yu’ is a respectful imitation of an ancient style, and never pretends to be anything else. But I wrote it with great care and love, and I’m still proud of it.“

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Figuring out whether I thought the criminal was guilty or innocent of the things she’d been accused of intrigued me. There was evidence to support both answers, and it wasn’t entirely clear at first which one the audience or Kao Yu, the judge, were supposed to think of as the correct one. I enjoyed the process of weighing the various factors the author shared with his audience and deciding what I thought probably happened before the judge came to town.

It would have been helpful to have more details included in this story. Kao Yu’s interactions with the criminal he kept meeting up with fascinated me, but they were described so rapidly that it was hard for me to imagine what was happening in those scenes. This pattern repeated itself over and over again.

The ending fit the tone of this tale well. There was so much conflict happening in the main character’s mind and life that I looked forward to seeing how it would all be resoved. The fact that the author figured out how to tie everything together in a way that made sense and fit the beautiful imagery of the earlier scenes made me smile. I didn’t want it to end so soon, but I was also quite satisfied by how it was all wrapped up.

The Story of Kao Yu should be read by anyone who likes legends or fairy tales. While it was written recently, it feels much older than it is in a very good way.