The Last Lover (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

In Can Xue’s striking ebook, we come across an entire assemblage of husbands, better halves, and enthusiasts. Entwined in complex, frequently tortuous relationships, those characters step into each one other’s fantasies, sporting on conversations which are “forever guessing video games. ” Their trips show the private nation-states of human wish, figured in Can Xue’s imaginative and prescient of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides.

Der Tag, an dem ein Wal durch London schwamm (German Edition)

Ein zauberhafter Roman über die Kraft der Wörter und der Fantasie»Wäre es möglich, Augenblicke einzufrieren, würde ich diesen in eine Plastikdose legen. Dann könnte guy den iciness über davon zehren. « Als es Anna immer weniger gelingt, ihre Erinnerungen festzuhalten, und ihr Gedächtnis langsam unzuverlässiger wird, klammert sie sich an Wortlisten (»Stein, Birke, Gras, Stuhl«) und erfindet Wörter für Dinge, die keinen Namen haben.

Fish in Exile

Compliment for Vi Khi Nao:"Here i used to be allowed to overlook for some time that that's what books aspire to inform, so taken was once I via extra mesmerizing and mysterious pleasures. " —Carole MasoHow do you undergo the demise of a kid? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the pals.

Beasts Head for Home: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

Following his nation’s defeat within the Pacific conflict, Kuki Kyuzo, a eastern adolescence, struggles to come back domestic to Japan from Manchuria. What follows is a wild trip concerning medicines, smuggling, chases, and seize. Kyuzo ultimately makes his as far back as Japan yet reveals himself not able to disembark. His state is still inaccessible to him, and now he questions its very lifestyles.