Death fugue / Sheng Keyi ; translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant ; designed by Harry Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keyi, Sheng, author.

Contributor:

Bryant, Shelly, translator.

Williamson, Harry, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Fiction.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Artarmon, New South Wales : Giramondo, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published for the first time in English by Giramondo, Death Fugue is the bold attempt by a prominent Chinese novelist to confront the legacy of protest and suppression which haunts her generation. Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan province in 1973 and lives in Beijing. Death Fugue is her sixth novel, and the second to be published in English translation, after Northern Girls (2012). It is a brave work of speculative fiction, a cross between Cloud Atlas and 1984, scathing in its irony, ingenious in its use of allegory, and acute in its understanding of the power of writing. The imagination that driv

Contents:

Part One; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; Part Two; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; Epilogue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-922146-64-1

1-922146-65-X

OCLC:

900017190