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Eunuch
(Hardcover)
Kristina Carlson; Translated by Mikko Alapuro
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Wang Wei has always chosen his words carefully. His unobtrusive
presence has seen him through the reign of five emperors, but now,
as his own time is running out, he immerses himself in an unbridled
account of a life confined at court. From the early separation from
his parents, sisters, and brother - who did not survive the
operation into a eunuch - to the power struggles he has witnessed
and endured, Wang Wei examines human relationships with precision
and a catching sense of wonder. While rumours are weapons, it is
love and its various forms of expression that most fascinate Wang
Wei. Reaching into a secret and secluded world, Carlson's vivid
prose is as delicate as it is enigmatic. A meditation on power and
exclusion, love and loneliness, gender and identity, ageing and
transformation, Eunuch is a compact masterpiece.
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