A01=Dai Sijie
asia
Author_Dai Sijie
Category=FBA
contemporary fiction
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fables
fables compendium
historical
historical fiction
historical romance
literary fiction
middle east
mystery
Product details
- ISBN 9780099521327
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jan 2010
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A young woman hears the tale of a sacred text, written in an ancient language and inscribed on silk cloth many centuries ago. Puyi, the last emperor and owner of the relic, allegedly tore the silk in pieces with his teeth and threw it from a plane when he was taken by the Japanese to Manchuria. A search for this lost text and its poignant, devastatingly simple message begins...
This is a beguiling tale of fables, stories within stories, a young man's desperate search for his father's legacy and a young woman's search for the man she loved. Covering almost a century of China's history, this haunting novel combines mystery, harsh reality and tenderness with astonishing insight.
Born in China in 1954, Dai Sijie is a film maker and novelist, who left China in 1984 for France where he now lives and works.. He is the author of the international bestseller, Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize), which he made into a film, and of Mr Muo's Travelling Couch (winner of the Prix Femina).
