Missives from the Masses Su Tong

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Zusammenfassung

*Missives from the Masses *opens award-winning author Su Tong's newest selection of short stories. From Qianmei, the only one in the dark about her terminal cancer, to the unloved undertaker with seemingly cursed hands, this collection presents darkly humorous and strange accounts of hidden lives eked out during China's turbulent economic rise.

Missives from the Masses Zusammenfassung

Missives from the Masses Su Tong

Qianmeis cancer is terminal, and everyone except her knows it.

Shes spent a lifetime Serving the People by penning a slew of complaints to superiors about the failings of colleagues and neighbours, no matter how small. Being confined to bed rest in a hospital just presents new targets.

As her family and doctors work on articulating the bad news, our principled comrade is visited by the victims of past petitions. Faced with the consequences of her words, does she now regret writing them? After all, regardless of how many letters might have reached the higher powers, theres always time to make amends, right?

Missives from the Masses opens award-winning author Su Tongs newest collection of short stories. From the girl in the window on bustling Mahogany Road to the unloved undertaker with seemingly cursed hands, these are darkly humorous and strange accounts of the hidden lives eked out during China's turbulent economic rise.

Missives from the Masses Bewertungen

"the (avant garde) movement's most prominent stylist" - Yiyun Li, The Guardian

* The Guardian *

Über Su Tong

Su Tong rose to international acclaim after Raise the Red Lantern, a film adaptation of his book Wives and Concubines, won the 1993 BAFTA for best non-English language film. He was joint winner of the 2015 Mao Dun Literature Prize, and his earlier novel The Boat to Redemption won the Man Asia Literature Prize in 2009. Josh Stenberg is a translator and senior lecturer Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published monographs on Chinese theatre and literature, as well as translated or edited several volumes of contemporary Chinese Literature. A collection of his own poetry, Nibs and Nubs, will be published by Flying Islands Press in 2024.

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Sku

GOR013725389

ISBN 13

9781838905651

ISBN 10

1838905650

Titel

Missives from the Masses Su Tong

Autor

Su Tong

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Broschiert

Verlag

ACA Publishing Limited

Datum

2024-02-23

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280

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