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pro vyhledávání: '"FICTION / World Literature / China / 21st Century"'
Autor:
Fang Fang
“She knew that if she didn't say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging.”The Running Flame opens with its protagonist in prison awaiting execution, desperate to give an account of her life. Y
Autor:
Fang Fang
Fang Fang's Soft Burial begins with a mysterious, nameless protagonist. Decades earlier she was pulled out of a river in a state of near-death; upon regaining consciousness, she discovered that her entire memory had been erased. The narrative follows
Autor:
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Kitty and her teenage friends, squatting in an empty apartment, are looking for gas to cook instant noodles. Bai Song and his wife, who live in the unit across the hallway, have a well-equipped kitchen with all the mod cons. Plus they're old and reti
Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zi'en, China's most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist. Drawing on his own experiences growing up i
Autor:
Lau Yee-Wa
A gripping psychological thriller that sheds light on the current political situation in Hong Kong.Tongueless follows two rival teachers at a secondary school in Hong Kong who are instructed to switch from teaching in Cantonese to Mandarin—or lose
Autor:
Sophie Wan
Three women. One daring plan. A wedding heist to remember. Lulu has always been taught that money is the ticket to a good life. So, when Shanghai's most eligible bachelor surprises her with a proposal, the only acceptable answer is yes, even if the v
Autor:
Yan Lianke
From “China's foremost literary satirist” (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt the Religious Training Center on
Autor:
Stefan Aust, Adrian Geiges
Chi è Xi Jinping e cosa vuole veramente? L'unica biografia non edulcorata sul presidente/segretario cinese che si addentra nella mente di uno dei leader più misteriosi al mondo. La storia nascosta della sua vita, dall'infanzia all'ascesa ai vertici
Autor:
Dorothy Tse
A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong. In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but als
Autor:
Zou Jingzhi
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the C