Silk Road

Jeanne Larsen. Ballantine Books, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90523-4

In eighth-century China, Greenpearl, the daughter of a Chinese general, is kidnapped by Tibetan raiders and sold into slavery, beginning a picaresque adventure involving three related quests that emanate from the celestial as well as the human realm. An ``enchanting, ingeniously constructed first novel,'' lauded PW. (July)

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