An Empty Room – Stories : Stories

Name: An Empty Room – Stories
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811219228
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9780811219228

by Mu Xin

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0811219224

ISBN-13 9780811219228

Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation

Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 23rd, 2011

Print length 160 Pages

Weight 148 grams

Dimensions 18.00 x 12.70 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Short stories

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A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals.

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.

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