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Mountain Whisperer


Author(s):
JIA Pingwa
Publisher:
ACA Publishing Limited
Publication:
4/2021
Languages:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN/SKU:
9781838905255
Pages:
0
Sizes:
0 x 0mm
Weight:
0.5000
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In a cave high in the ageless mountains of Chinas desolate interior, an ancient funeral singer awaits the end. From his deathbed he gives voice to the generations of villagers to whom he devoted his lifes work, and four all-too-human souls whose struggles defined an era. A soldier, a peasant, a revolutionary and a politician. When revolt and reform take hold of the wartorn plains, all play their debased roles in the mythic cycle of avarice, vengeance and suffering. As his four tragedies interweave, the cracked lips of the dying sage conjure a stark vision: a retelling of the forging of the Peoples Republic from turbulent birth to absurd reversal whispered from its uncharted margins.
Jia Pingwa is widely recognised as one of the greatest living writers of Chinese literature A novel that both epitomises both the wild transformation of China across the 20th century, and the vital folk spirit which persists beneath its surface A powerful meditation on lifes struggles in the face of death and dissolution