My enemy's cherry tree / Wang Ting-Kuo ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Dingguo, 1954 or 1955- author.

Contributor:

Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- translator.

Lin, Sylvia Li-chun, translator.

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Di ren de ying hua. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Coffeehouses.

Missing persons.

Taiwan--Fiction.

Taiwan.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Missing persons--Taiwan--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Coffeehouses--Taiwan--Fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Granta Publications, 2019.

Language Note:

Translated from the Chinese.

Summary:

"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 cafe in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return. Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who holds the small town in his sway. In the few moments the two men spend together, Luo is driven mad. So begins a story of desire and betrayal set against the tumultuous first decade of Taiwan's 21st Century. The recipient of all three of Taiwan's major literary prizes, My Enemy's Cherry Tree is a story of love, money and coercion, in which two men who have sought to acquire something unattainable, instead lose something irreplaceable."--Publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Di ren de ying hua.

Originally published: Taiwan : Ink Publishing Co., 2015.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781846276583

1846276586

OCLC:

1041804670

Publisher Number:

99980899300