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 making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist’s own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution provide the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters and events provide divergent perspectives on the rape and its aftermath. The result is an unforgettable exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution.
Over de auteur
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.
Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● ISBN 9780231508926 ● Bestandsgrootte 0.6 MB ● Vertaler Sylvia Lin & Howard Goldblatt ● Uitgeverij Columbia University Press ● Stad New York ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2003 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2490272 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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