Jia Pingwa - Böcker

When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China's State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa's vivid portrayal of contemporary China...

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Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. From one of China's most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams-all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbani...

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From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leav...

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Modern master Jia Pingwa's novel which retells the turbulent birth of modern China from its rural margins. High in the mountains of central China a dying funeral singer tells four interweaved tragedies of all-too-human players caught in the earthl...

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Following Hai Ruo, the owner of the teashop, and her sisterhood of a dozen friends. Plagued by unhappy relationships with men and their struggles with business and politics.

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  Evening, I made my one hundred and seventy-eighth scratch on the cave wall. Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance...

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Broken Wings tells the story of Butterfly, who is kidnapped and taken to a remote mountain village devoid of young women. There, she is imprisoned and, later, raped in the cave home of the wifeless farmer who has bought her. Butterfly's fading hop...

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In a cave high in the ageless mountains of China's desolate interior, an ancient funeral singer awaits the end. From his deathbed he gives voice to the generations of villagers to whom he devoted his life's work, and four all-too-human souls whose...

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Constantly bickering with her shallow friend Brow, beginning correspondence courses she will never finish, helping sage-like Grandpa Cloud Forest with his mystical healing and stealthily avoiding matrimony with her less-than-impressive fianc Old R...

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Against the backdrop of the contemporary life in the ancient capital of Xi'an with a long history and rich culture, the novel narrates the daily life of "e;four celebrities"e;: the writer Zhuang Zhidie hailed as "e;Leisurely Prose Lite...

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The young master of Family Liu went fetch the bride for the wedding but came across bandits. In order to protect the beautiful bride, Wu Kui ran away with her on his back, but he ended up failing to escape the bandits and the bride was taken away....

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Dai Deng is another surprise that Jia Pingwa brought to the literary world and to readers. The work not only maintains the author's previous artistic characteristics, but also reaches a new literary height. The protagonist of the novel is a female...

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När Lyckan Liu flyttade till storstan för att börja ett nytt liv var det inte lumpsamlare han hade tänkt bli. Men vad ska man göra när man är en fattig bonde och inte har vare sig pengar eller utbildning? Och livet som lumpsamlare är inte helt uta...

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"Xia Feng tyckte inte om att Xia Tianzhi spelade opera. Dels hördes det överallt i byn, dels skrällde det och levde om så att han inte kunde sova. Men Bai Xue försvarade sin svärfar och sa att musiken hjälpte henne att driva bort ledan ur hjä...

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När jag sitter här, inlåst i grottan, är det bara genom fönstret som jag har någon kontakt med omvärlden. Det är indelat i fyrtioåtta rutor, fyrtioåtta små rutor som har blivit fyrtioåtta ögon för mig. Ute på gården kan jag se slingor av rök och h...

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En författare skriver sitt livs roman och gör succé, men efter bara någon månad förbjuds boken och han blir paria bland sina författarkollegor. Samtidigt börjar människor ur alla samhällslager protestera öppet mot korruption och förtryck, högljudd...

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