An Empty Room: Stories
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ISBN-13:
9780811219228
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2011
Seiten:
160
Autor:
Mu Xin
Gewicht:
140 g
Format:
179x128x14 mm
Serie:
1190, New Directions Paperbook
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway's In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata's palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin's wandering "I" interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribbles notes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.
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