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S'està carregant… Rouge Street: Three Novellas (edició 2022)de Xuetao Shuang (Autor)
Informació de l'obraRouge Street: Three Novellas de Xuetao Shuang
![]() Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was prepared for this book to be something that felt like homework. Instead, it was a delight. Each novella was very different from the others. The first was a generational tale, the second was a folktale-feeling story involving two children who were just trying to survive in the absence of parents who were capable of caring for them, and the final novella was a noirish tale of criminals and the detective hunting them down. The novellas are also inter-connected, making this feel more cohesive that the usual collection. These novellas were a wonderful introduction to a celebrated young Chinese writer. I hope more of of his work is translated soon. Broken people, the detritus of a broken state nevertheless continue the shards of their lives and selves. These three novellas are full of strangeness that contorts to familiarity in a labyrinth with walls formed by collages of viewpoints. The answers are never as important as the question - often such as where is my parent?, because the answer never satisfies the need that the lack creates. ![]() ![]() Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"An inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, fights a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks. Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami. Located in China's frigid Northeast, Shenyang, the author's birthplace, boasts an illustrious past-legend holds that the emperor's makeup was manufactured here. But while the city enjoyed renewed importance as an industrial hub under Mao Zedong, China's subsequent transition from communism to a market economy led to an array of social ills-unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce, suicide-that gritty Shenyang epitomizes. Orbiting the toughest neighborhood of a postindustrial city whose vast, inhospitable landscape makes every aspect of life a struggle, these many-voiced missives are united by Shuang Xuetao's singular style-one that balances hardscrabble naturalism with the transcendent and faces the bleak environs with winning humor. Rouge Street illuminates not only the hidden pains of those left behind in an extraordinary economic boom but also the inspiration and grace they, nevertheless, manage to discover"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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![]() GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)895.13Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Chinese Chinese fictionLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:![]()
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