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An Empty Room: Stories Paperback - 2011

by Mu Xin; Toming Jun Liu (Translator)

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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.

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  • Title An Empty Room: Stories
  • Author Mu Xin; Toming Jun Liu (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
  • Publication date 2011-05
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780811219228 / 0811219224
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 5 x 0.6 in (17.53 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Mu, Xin
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010052844
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.145

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  • Library Journal, 06/01/2011, Page 96
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/28/2011, Page 0
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