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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 184
Utgivningsdatum: 2021-05-25
Förlag: Balestier Press
Översättare: Natascha Bruce, Nicky Harman
Illustrationer: Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
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Komponenter: 401:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN: 9781911221289

A Classic Tragedy

Name: A Classic Tragedy
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Author: Xiaobin Xu
ISBN: 9781911221289

Short Stories

av Xiaobin Xu

Häftad, Engelska, 2021-05-25

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With her delightfully evocative prose, Xu Xiaobin presents us with a collection of stories crawling with fraught power dynamics, strange events, and unsettling images. Not only does she write about women, but the worlds around them, the fears that dog them, and the histories that haunt them.

Xu's entangled plots sneak up on the reader and make a lasting impression, from the blind singing sensation with a calculating mother, to the scornful aunt of an aging Miss Asia winner, to the young woman who becomes consumed by filth in the dilapidated house of her in-laws. Each of these mournful portraits of female life are tinged with the grotesque, and deliver an irresistibly sinister look into a China raging toward modernity while remaining constrained by an age-old violence towards its women.

Haunting, brave, and unapologetic, Xu Xiaobin's is an important voice in Chinese literature that commands the attention of its readers through its gripping story-telling and indomitable courage.

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Xu Xiaobin is an influential and prolific Chinese female writer of fictions, proses and scripts. Born in Beijing, Xu started to publish literary works in 1981. Xu is noted for writings of searing emotional honesty about gender and sexuality, that push the boundaries of what is politically acceptable in today's China. Her works include magnum opus Feathered Serpent (1998 novel), Dream of Dunhuang (1994 novel), Princess Deling (2004 novel) and Pisces (1995 novella). A winner of a number of renowned literary awards, such as Lu Xun Literature Prize and China's National Literary Creative Writing Award, Xu's masterpieces have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Norwegian and other languages.