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Ten Thousand Things (Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction)

Autor: John Spurling
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Duckworth Books
Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată
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In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat, employed by t...

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Autor
John Spurling
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2015
Pagini
368
EAN
9780715647318
ISBN
0715647318
Enbook ID
02090279
Editura
Duckworth Books
Greutate
610
Dimensiuni
232 x 160 x 32

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In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat, employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity with this regime, he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead to live the life of the mind. Wang is an extraordinarily gifted artist. His paintings are at once delicate and confident; in them, one can see the wind blowing through the trees, the water rushing through rocky valleys, the infinite expanse of China's natural beauty. But this is not a time for sitting still and, as The Ten Thousand Things unfolds, we follow Wang as he travels through an empire in turmoil. In his wanderings, he encounters, among many memorable characters, other master painters of the period, a fierce female warrior known as the White Tigress who will recruit him as a military strategist, and an ugly young Buddhist monk who rises from beggary to extraordinary heights. In The Ten Thousand Things, John Spurling endows every description - every detail - with the precision and depth that the real-life Wang Meng brought to his painting. But it is also a novel of fated meetings, grand battles and riveting drama, and in its seamless fusion of the epic and the intimate, it deserves to be compared to the classic Chinese novels that partly inspired it. The Ten Thousand Things is nothing short of a literary event.

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