An Empty Room – Stories : Stories
by
Mu Xin
Book Details
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
Ksh 2,350.00
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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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