The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide.Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for love, Shanghai Baby has already risen to cult status in mainland China. The risque contents of the breakthrough novel by hip new author Wei Hui have so alarmed Beij...more
This collection includes twenty-five poems of the great ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan (340-278 B.C.), which constitute all his extant works. The English transaltion has been made from the Chinese text edited by Wang Yi of the Han dynasty, while the interpretations are based on the modern Chinese translations of Guo Moruo, an authority on Qu Yuan st...more
Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
In Waves, the poet Bei Dao turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China.
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."--Saturday Review of Literatur...more
Brings together Bruno Schulz's stories, letters and drawings in one volume. Schulz is the author of two collections of stories, "Cinnamon Shops" and "Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass".
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