Fr. 60.50

There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night

Inglese · Copertina rigida

Spedizione di solito entro 3 a 5 settimane

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Set among a remote cluster of cave dwellings in Shanxi province, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is a genre-defying expose of rural communism. In a series of vivid, interlocking vignettes, several narrators speak of adultery, bestiality, incest, and vice, revealing the consequences of desire in a world of necessity. The Wen Clan Caves are based on an isolated village where the author, Cao Naiqian, lived during the Cultural Revolution. The land is hard and unforgiving and the people suffer in poverty and ignorance. Through the individual perspectives of the Wen Clan denizens, a complete portrait of village life takes shape. Dark yet lyrical, Cao's snapshots range from pastoral stories of childhood innocence to shocking accounts of brutality and terror. His work echoes William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, yet the author's depictions of elemental passions and regional mores make the book entirely his own.Celebrated for its economy of expression, flashes of humor, and an emphasis on understatement rarely found in Chinese fiction, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night is an excellent introduction to the power and craft of Cao Naiqian. His vivid personalities and unflinching realism herald the haunting work of an original literary force.

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Autori Naiqian Cao, Naiqian/ Balcom Cao, Cao Naiqian
Con la collaborazione di John Balcom (Traduzione), Balcom John (Traduzione)
Editore Columbia University Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 28.04.2009
 
EAN 9780231148108
ISBN 978-0-231-14810-8
Pagine 248
Dimensioni 148 mm x 218 mm x 22 mm
Serie Weatherhead Books on Asia
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Categorie Narrativa > Romanzi
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature

Education, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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