Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage
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Author: | Laszlo Krasznahorkai Translated by Ottilie Mulzet |
ISBN 13: | 9780857423115 |
Year: | 2016 |
Subject: | Language and literature |
About the Book
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom