Howard Goldblatt, a Guggenheim Fellow, is an internationally renowned translator of Chinese fiction, including the novels of Mo Yan, the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
40 Ebooks von Howard Goldblatt
Huang Huang Chun-ming: The Taste of Apples
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is freque …
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€30.99
Yung-p’ing Li: Retribution
Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while …
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€40.99
Shu-Ching Shih: City of the Queen
From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the ‚pearl‘ of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of commerce. Thr …
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€26.99
T’ien-hsin Chu: The Old Capital
Chu T’ien-hsin’s The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan’s literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, ‚Is it possible that none of your memories count? …
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€35.99
Ang Li: The Lost Garden
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in …
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€28.99
Anyi Wang: Fu Ping
Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that …
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€19.99
Xiao Hong: Market Street
Back in print – Market Street Das E-Book Market Street wird angeboten von University of Washington Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert:
Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Fiction …
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€27.99
Howard Goldblatt: Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused : Fiction from Today’s China
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales …
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€18.76
Bi Fei: Three Sisters
WINNER OF THE 2010 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE From the petty treachery of the village to the slogans of the Cultural Revolution and the harried pace of city life, three sisters strive to change the …
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€7.19
Hong Xiao: Ma Bo’le’s Second Life
Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on the run to avoid the coming Japanese invasion. A humorous-yet-stark depiction of despair in the face …
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€13.99
Su Tong: Binu and the Great Wall
Knopf Canada welcomes one of Chinas most acclaimed and bestselling writersauthor of Raise the Red Lanternto the list with a fascinating retelling of a magical storyalready an international bestseller …
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€52.58
Bi Feiyu: Three Sisters
In a small village in China, the Wang family has produced seven sisters in its quest to have a boy; three of the sisters emerge as the lead characters in this remarkable novel. From the small-town …
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€2.84
Howard Goldblatt: Chinese Literature for the 1980s
Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China’s literary trends tend to be announced beforehand allowing for …
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€18.78
Howard Goldblatt: Chinese Literature for the 1980s
Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China’s literary trends tend to be announced beforehand allowing for …
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€18.73
Jiang Rong: Wolf Totem
China’s runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions …
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€25.55
Mo Yan: Frog
Frogs is a richly complex new novel about China’s one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012.A respected midwife, Gugu combines modern medical knowledge with a healer’s …
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€8.99
Alai: Red Poppies
This suspenseful saga of Tibet during the rise of Chinese Communism “conjures up a faraway world . . . panoramic and intimate at the same time” (Michiko Kakutani, The …
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€25.04
Su Tong: Boat to Redemption
A tragicomic novel of a father and son coping with China’s Cultural Revolution, from “a true literary talent” (Anchee Min, author of Empress Orchid). Winner of the Man Asian …
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€22.53
Wang Ting-Kuo: My Enemy’s Cherry Tree
A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small caf, in her favourite spot on the edge of …
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€18.55
Howard Goldblatt & Mo Yan: Garlic Ballads
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as …
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€12.90
Mo Yan: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
One of the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Ideal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar works Written by today’s most …
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€14.07
Mo Yan: Republic of Wine
In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Winea …
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€12.90
Mo Yan: Big Breasts and Wide Hips
In his latest novel, Mo Yanarguably Chinas most important contemporary literary voicerecreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where …
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€15.25
Su Tong: Binu and the Great Wall of China
In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his …
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€13.13
Mo Yan: Red Sorghum
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese …
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€8.99
Su Tong: Boat to Redemption
Disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party – it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, …
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€8.99
Su Tong: How the Ceremony Ends/The Water Demon (Storycuts)
In ‚How the Ceremony Ends‘, it was last winter that the folklorist paid his visit to the village of Eight Pines. He wanted to collect folk tales and customs, to re-enact the ceremonies of life and …
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€4.99
Su Tong: Dance of Heartbreak/The Diary for August (Storycuts)
In ‚Dance of Heartbreak‘, something happened to a young boy in Grade 4, at Red Flag Elementary School; but even today the whole affair remains fresh in his mind. He’d never met another girl like her; …
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€4.99
Su Tong: Goddess Peak/The Q of Hearts (Storycuts)
In ‚Goddess Peak‘, Miaoyue and Li Yong were almost the last two passengers aboard the steamboat to Goddess Peak – them and Li Yong’s friend Mr Cui. Miaoyue found Mr Cui taller and better built than …
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€4.99
Su Tong: Atmospheric Pressure (Storycuts)
The train was late, and the wind was blowing Meng’s coat open in the snow. With no sign of his cousin, he needed somewhere to stay the night. An old man enticed him to a second-rate hostel, and …
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€4.99
Su Tong: Home in May (Storycuts)
Yongshan is taking her son back to Licheng to visit relatives, and to see the town where she grew up. But when they get there, all she could find were desolate houses. Even the people on the street …
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Su Tong: On Saturdays (Storycuts)
You don’t expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi’s visiting day. Every …
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Su Tong: Giant Baby (Storycuts)
It was rare for the people from Wangbao to come down from their mountain village, but one spring, they arrive in town with sensational news – a virgin birth. What’s more, there is something very odd …
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Su Tong: Private Banquet (Storycuts)
Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word ‚intellectual‘. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for …
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Su Tong: Thieves (Storycuts)
Tan Feng was my one and only friend in Sichuan. He was the same age as me: about eight or nine. Tan Feng’s family lived next door to us, and their other kids were all girls, so you can imagine how …
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Su Tong: Weeping Willow (Storycuts)
Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken …
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Chiang-Sheng Kuo: Piano Tuner
This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate heartsand music: A delightful read.Ha Jin A widower grieving for …
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€19.94
Alai: Song of King Gesar
The first English translation of Tibet’s founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China’s Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the world’s great epics, …
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€25.01
