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20 produkter
Ruined City
A Novel
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2016
323 kr
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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's social and economic transformation has become a …
Old Land, New Tales
Twenty Short Stories by Writers of the Shaanxi Region in China
Ljudbok, 2014
224 kr
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In this captivating collection from the Shaanxi region, considered the cradle of Chinese civilization, twenty disparate and unique voices come together to show a China caught between new-world advancements and old-world traditions. From the homeland of China’s first dynasty and the world-famous …
Shaanxi Opera
A Novel
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2023
120 kr
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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 urbanizing China.In post–Cultural Revolution China, in the …
Happy Dreams
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2017
120 kr
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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 leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi'an …
Old Kiln
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2025
246 kr
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1966, China is on the cusp of a decade of upheaval, and the furnaces of Old Kiln have never been this cold. The village’s once-famed ceramics production has almost ground to a halt. Only ancient grudges smoulder beneath its poverty-stricken streets, never forgotten by the two families that preside …
Sojourn Teashop
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2024
161 kr
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Morning brings new and old faces to Hai Ruo’s teashop. The premium leaves she sells to Xijing’s high society keep the doors open, however it’s her Sisterhood – a dozen glamorous confidants who visit daily to share tales of love, loss and professional success – that really keeps the shop …
Sojourn Teashop
Av Jia Pingwa
Inbunden, 2023
185 kr
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Morning brings new and old faces to Hai Ruo’s teashop. The premium leaves she sells to Xijing’s high society keep the doors open, however it’s her Sisterhood – a dozen glamorous confidants who visit daily to share tales of love, loss and professional success – that really keeps the shop …
Broken Wings
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2019, 0-3 år
152 kr
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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.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in …
Mountain Whisperer
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2023
172 kr
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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 struggles defined an era. A soldier, a peasant, a …
Earthen Gate
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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‘From that moment onwards, the dog and I both found ourselves incapable of ever cherishing a sense of belonging.’ 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 …
Wild Land
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2022
148 kr
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Jia Pingwa is one of the best-known and most prolific novelists in contemporary China. The Wild Land brings together a collection of his most celebrated prose essays, each in their first English translation. Delving deep into his diverse preoccupations – fate, art, religion and interpersonal …
Opera
Av Jia Pingwa
Inbunden, 2017
339 kr
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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 hjärtat när hon nu bara låg till sängs hela dagarna och inte …
Turbulence
A Novel
Av Jia Pingwa
Häftad, 2003
159 kr
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In this dazzling, earthy novel -- winner of the prestigious Pegasus Prize for Literature -- Jia Pingwa presents an unforgettable chronicle of rural China, a world at once utterly alien and uncannily familiar. Called "impressive and revealing" (Kirkus Reviews), Turbulence follows the lives of two …
Mountain Whisperer
Av Jia Pingwa
Inbunden, 2021
203 kr
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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 struggles defined an era.A soldier, a peasant, a …
