Empty Room

Stories

AvMu Xin

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-23
Mått:127 x 180 x 13 mm
Vikt:148 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions Paperbook
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9780811219228
Översättare:Toming Jun Liu, Toming (California State University Los Angeles) Jun Liu

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Mu Xin, born in 1927 in China, is among the last of his generation to receive a classical education. During the Cultural Revolution he was imprisoned for eighteen months and then lived under house arrest for several years. In 1982 he moved to the U.S., where he lived in Queens, New York, and only recently moved back to his hometown in China. He is the author of several collections of stories, poetry, and essays, as well as being a world-renowned painter. Toming Jun Liu is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.

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"Mu Xin is best known as a writer and not a painter. He sustains theChinese mode of returning to the art of the past and refreshing it for thepresent. He came to the United States in 1982, has written a dozenbooks here, and is a literary cult figure in Taiwan and among intellectualsin the Chinese diaspora."