Bibliograph

Rouge street, three novellas, Shuang Xuetao ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Type

Label

Rouge street, three novellas, Shuang Xuetao ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Rouge street

Oclc number

1310708326

Responsibility statement

Shuang Xuetao ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Sub title

three novellas

Summary

"An inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, fights a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks. Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami. Located in China's frigid Northeast, Shenyang, the author's birthplace, boasts an illustrious past-legend holds that the emperor's makeup was manufactured here. But while the city enjoyed renewed importance as an industrial hub under Mao Zedong, China's subsequent transition from communism to a market economy led to an array of social ills-unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce, suicide-that gritty Shenyang epitomizes. Orbiting the toughest neighborhood of a postindustrial city whose vast, inhospitable landscape makes every aspect of life a struggle, these many-voiced missives are united by Shuang Xuetao's singular style-one that balances hardscrabble naturalism with the transcendent and faces the bleak environs with winning humor. Rouge Street illuminates not only the hidden pains of those left behind in an extraordinary economic boom but also the inspiration and grace they, nevertheless, manage to discover"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The aeronaut -- Bright Hall -- Moses on the plain

Classification