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«Si se para a pensarlo —continuó el director—, un genio matemático, alguien que desde la infancia había estado en contacto íntimo con la interpretación de los sueños, un hombre que había estudiado la filosofía china y el pensamiento occidental, y que había explorado las complejidades de la mente humana, era alguien que tenía un don y había nacido para ser criptógrafo.»
Rong Jinzhen es un chico fuera de lo común: educado por un extranjero en la China de los años veinte, viv... continue
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El invisible by Fei Ge ES
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Esta novela breve y contundente, es la primera del aclamado autor chino Ge Fei que se traduce al castellano. El protagonista de El invisible vive en la Beijing contemporánea, donde todo el mundo está ocupado en ascender por la escalera del éxito soportando una carga cada vez mayor de bienes de consumo. Entrado en los cuarenta años, divorciado y sin hijos, vive con su hermana en un departamento en el borde de la ciudad, tratando de mantenerse a flote financiera y emocionalmente en una sociedad fuera de cualquier escala humana. En la segunda mitad de la década ... continue
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El país imaginado by Eduardo Berti ES
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Imbuida de una atmósfera mágica, de delicados elementos que prefiguran lo que ha de ser el país imaginado, esta bella historia nos traslada a una China de principios del siglo XX repleta de fantasmas, de bodas entre vivos y muertos, de supersticiones y ritos ancestrales. En medio de todo ello se encuentra la protagonista, una joven que vive atemorizada por el compromiso nupcial que para ella desean pactar sus padres y que, mientras, solo tiene ojos para la hija de un vendedor de pájaros ciego, la hermosísima Xiaomei, con quien inicia una tímida relación de amistad y dependencia. En sus citas e... continue
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Empress Orchid by Anchee Min EN
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From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lav... continue
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English: A Novel by Wang Gang EN
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"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the capital of China's far west region of Xinjiang, twelve-year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his ... continue
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Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah EN
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The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she... continue
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Ghost Music by An Yu EN
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From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan ... continue
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li EN
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"The stories in this collection are mostly set in the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to situations unknown to previous decades: residents in a shabby block of flats witnessing in awe the property boom; a local entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist sheltering women in trouble in her mansion; a group of retired women discovering fame late in their lives as private investigators specialising in extramarital affairs; a young woman setting up a blog to publicise an alleged affair of her father. Beneath the veneer of prosperity and opportunity, however, lie the struggles ... continue
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Golden Age : A Novel by Wang Xiaobo EN
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"At the time Wang was writing, novels about the Cultural Revolution tended to be fairly conventional tales of how good people suffered nobly during this decade of madness. The system itself was rarely called into question. Wang’s book was radically different . . . The idea of how to stand up to power underlies Golden Age." —Ian Johnson, The New York Times Book Review Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history. “Apparently, there was a rumour that Chen Qingyang and I were having an affair. She wa... continue