An Empty Room: Stories

An Empty Room: Stories
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780811219662
ISBN-13 : 0811219666
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis An Empty Room: Stories by : Mu Xin

Download or read book An Empty Room: Stories written by Mu Xin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals. 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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