The Dog

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 aug 2015

Set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, this riveting, richly imagined collection explodes the country's cultural and social fault lines, revealing a nation accustomed to the stranglehold of communism as it confronts a generation rife with the promise of unforeseen prosperity.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250069641
ISBN-10: 1250069645
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Jack Livings's stories have appeared inTheParis Review,StoryQuarterly,Tin HouseandBest American Short Stories, and have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. Livings received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He lives in New York.

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Stunning.The Dogbristles with prickly details and barbed observations . . . An incisive - and highly impressive - debut
A book of extraordinary power
Livings's magnificent debut collection of short stories,The Dog, all set in contemporary, or near-contemporary China,satisfies that basic readerly urge,pitched somewhere between escapism and anthropological curiosity, to be transported.
Livings writes so simply, and so well. . . These stories are sneaky, almost subliminal, in their ambitions and connections

What gives these stories their dark, upsetting grandeur is in every case the luminosity of hope, no matter how fragile, how vulnerable, how very nearly extinguished
A brilliant and promising debut.With its tales of volatile protagonists struggling to survive in contemporary China,The Dogshould attract widespread attention and praise. . . Any unfamiliarity with the Chinese locales and culture is quickly eased by Livings's imaginative yet realistic scenarios and vividly drawn characters
Already causing excitement in America, Jack Livings's remarkableThe Dogisan impressive clutch of storiesshowing post-Mao China
A socially complex and pitch-perfect account of modernization's grueling aftermath
A captivating read
Livings has a keen eye for details and a knack for dialogue
Touching and humane

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