Dai Sijie, Author, Adriana Hunter, Translator , trans. from the French by Adriana Hunter. Knopf $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-307-27158-7
Acclaimed novelist Sijie has written another novel that has already caused a stir in France. Narrated by an unnamed Western student in China in the 1970s, the story begins centuries before, with the Emperor Huizong, a calligrapher and great art...
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Dai Sijie, Author, B. D. Wong, Read by , read by B.D. Wong. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2054-9
Wong's mellifluous, theatrical voice sets the stage for this novel of Muo, a French-trained psychoanalyst who returns to his native China in search of his lost love. Finding her imprisoned by Communist fiat, Muo discovers that the only way to...
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Sijie Dai, Author, Dai Sijie, Author, Ina Rilke, Translator , trans. from the French by Ina Rilke. Knopf $18 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-41309-4
The Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao Zedong altered Chinese history in the 1960s and '70s, forcibly sending hundreds of thousands of Chinese intellectuals to peasant villages for "re-education." This moving, often wrenching short...
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