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By the River - Seven Contemporary Chinese Novellas (Paperback)
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By the River - Seven Contemporary Chinese Novellas (Paperback)
Series: Chinese Literature Today Book Series
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The novella, as the editors of this volume explain, is in many ways
the ""native habitat"" of modern Chinese literary production - the
ideal fictional form for revealing the various facets of
contemporary Chinese culture. The seven novellas collected here
resoundingly support their claim. Featuring works by award winners
and rising stars, women and men, By the River presents a confluence
of some of the most compelling voices in China today. Together,
their narratives reflect the rich diversity of Chinese experience
in the modern era. These novellas are stories of coming of age in
the countryside, of romance in the shadow of an electrical power
station or in the watery landscape of a lost love, of a daughter's
epic journey to find her estranged mother. Whether telling of love
or loss, of work or play along the river of experience, the
narratives are replete with details that bring literary depth to
the everyday - the mark of the novella. These details and the
novellas into which they are woven defy simple answers to moral and
political questions about modern life, leaving readers with the
feeling that their world has been made larger, that they have seen
through different eyes for a moment, if not forever. Reflecting
modern Chinese life in the city and in the country, and among
diverse regional cultures, By the River showcases the best of
contemporary Chinese long-form fiction.
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