An Empty Room: Stories

2011-05-23 Fiction

Author : Mu Xin
Release : 2011-05-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 666/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Empty Room: Stories written by Mu Xin. This book was released on 2011-05-23. 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.

An Empty Room: Stories

2011-05-23 Fiction

Author : Mu Xin
Release : 2011-05-23
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Empty Room: Stories written by Mu Xin. This book was released on 2011-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer experiences life in exile.

The Empty Room

2018 Fiction

Author : Sadia Abbas
Release : 2018
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Empty Room written by Sadia Abbas. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from which there is no escape. In a world of stifling conformity, Tahira must fight for her very identity: as a woman, and as a painter. Tragedy strikes when her family and friends are caught up in the brutally repressive regime. Faced with horror and loss, she embarks upon a series of paintings entitled 'The Empty Room', filling the blank canvases with vivid colour and light."--Publisher's description.

Rodinsky's Room

2014-10-02 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Iain Sinclair
Release : 2014-10-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 440/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rodinsky's Room written by Iain Sinclair. This book was released on 2014-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past and on the Whitechapel he has reinvented in his own writing. Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished, a homage to a unique culture and way of life.

Reading and Writing About Literature

2012-09-15 Literary Collections

Author : Janet E. Gardner
Release : 2012-09-15
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 495/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing About Literature written by Janet E. Gardner. This book was released on 2012-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far less expensive than comparable guides, Reading and Writing about Literature: A Portable Guide is an ideal supplement for writing courses where literature anthologies and individual literary works that lack writing instruction are assigned. This brief guide introduces strategies for reading literature, explains the writing process and common writing assignments for literature courses, provides instruction in writing about fiction, poetry, and drama, and includes coverage of writing a research paper and of literary criticism and theory. This volume in the popular Bedford/St. Martin's series of Portable Anthologies and Guides offers a trademark combination of high quality and great value.

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