An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu
Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative
stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection
is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway s In Our Time
and the imagistic power of Kawabata s palm-of-the-hand stories.
From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos)
to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin s wandering I interweaves
plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small
blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a
race against fading memory scribbles notes in an underground prison
during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a
dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirring page turner, a
Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.
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