Passing Under Heaven: Canada's Ultimate Hockey Dad on How to Grow the Potential of Any Child
Autor Justin Hillen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2005
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, a beautiful girl is born in a fort along the Great Wall of China, and is set to become the most famous and celebrated courtesan of her age. Set in the 9th century, Passing Under Heaven tells the tragic love story of Lily, and documents a time when Chinese women enjoyed a window of unprecedented personal freedom—including the freedom to fall in love. But when Lily pushes that freedom to its limits, disaster ensues, leaving her child and husband to forever mourn her loss. Based on historical fact, Passing Under Heaven is more than the story of the end of a love affair, but also a chronicle of the passing of the Chinese golden age into civil war and ruin.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349117409
ISBN-10: 0349117403
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 198 x 126 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Abacus (UK)
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349117403
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 198 x 126 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Abacus (UK)
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Justin Hill lived and taught in China for four years. He turned his experiences there into The Drink and Dream Tea House and A Bend in the Yellow River. He has just won the Somerset Maugham Prize.
Recenzii
Passionately imagined INDEPENDENT Superbly evoked are the luxury and refinement that co-exist with cold cruelty and a fatalism that to us is puzzling. Minister Lee and Yu Xuanju cannot live with or without each other, and their long-running and tortured love affair is a beautifully handl DAILY MAIL A great and passionate storyteller INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Rich in atmosphere, lavishly described...captivating... Hill is not afraid to humanise Lily, to show her engaged in great acts of cruelty, but he does so without losing the reader's sympathy. That her life will end tragically is never in doubt, but the exact EVENING HERALD