Under Fishbone Clouds
by
Sam Meekings
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846971683
ISBN-13
9781846971686
Publisher
Birlinn General
Imprint
Birlinn Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 18th, 2010
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.00 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.
Under Fishbone Clouds is a love story, a family saga and a compendium of Chinese history, folklore, myth and culture. The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.This tale is interwoven with Chinese traditional folktales and stories from ancient Chinese history, while the omnipresent backdrop to Yuying and Jinyi''s lives is the sequence of dramatic events of recent Chinese political history, which determines the course of their lives.
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