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Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Paperback, New edition)
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Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Handheld Classics, 9
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Loot Price R389
Discovery Miles 3 890
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Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) was a ship's doctor serving in
south-east Asia, and is one of the most important twentieth-century
Dutch-language writers. His 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
(Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the
reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great
Wall of China. Slauerhoff's narrator is a Belfast ship's radio
operator, desperate to escape the sea, who travels inland on a
gun-runner's mission. He moves through extraordinary settings of
opium salons, the house of a Cantonese watch-mender, the siege of
Shanghai, the great flood on the western plains, and the discovery
of oil by the uncomprehending overlord in the hidden city of
Chungking. The fantasy ending transforms the novel from travelogue
and adventure to existential meditation. But running like a thread
of darkness through the story is opium, from poppy head harvesting
to death through addiction. This translation by David McKay, winner
of the 2018 Vondel Prize, is the first English edition of
Slauerhoff's most accessible and enthralling novel. The
Introduction is by Slauerhoff expert Arie Pos and Wendy Gan of the
University of Hong Kong.
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