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Item Details
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GREEN RIVER DAYDREAMS
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| By: |
Liu Heng, Professor Howard Goldblatt (Trans) |
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Paperback / softback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0802139043 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802139047 |
| Publisher: |
GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 May, 2002 |
| Synopsis: |
Liu Heng is one of contemporary China's most acclaimed and masterful writers, and with Green River Daydreams he has written a story of love and adultery, smut and poetry, revolt and retrenchment, comedy and horror, of the struggle between Western ideas and the old political system, all of it set against a supplely portrayed mountain and river landscape (NPR's All Things Considered). Ears, the slave of a wealthy landowning family in the early twentieth century, bears witness to its spectacular corruption and decline. The family's prodigal son, Guanghan, returns from four years of study in Europe with a French engineer friend and a dream of starting a collectively run match factory, but has little interest in the bride his family has arranged for him. Her beauty and good heart have not gone unnoticed by Ears, however -- nor has her growing closeness to the Frenchman. Meanwhile, clashes between the Qing imperialists and the resistance are quickly becoming bloody -- and Guanghan's iconoclastic ideas do not remain free of suspicion for long. |
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US |
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
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Non-returnable |
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