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OverviewTranslated from the Chinese by Chenxin Jiang. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Xiao Bai , Xiao Bai (Beihang University, China)Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: Harper Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9780062313454ISBN 10: 0062313452 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 07 July 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews""Rich with historical detail, Xiao Bai's French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller--which like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret."" -- Simon Van Booy ""Xiao Bai has done something totally different. He didn't write about the 1930's and the concessions as background for his story-they are the subjects of his writing. He is writing in the tradition of Honore de Balzac."" -- Feng Tao, book editor and critic in Shanghai ""A complex and fast-paced plot that twists around the murder, in the spring of 1931, of a Nanking politico on his arrival in Shanghai...A political and police novel, historical fresco, and mirror of human passions."" -- Il Manifesto (Italy) Rich with historical detail, Xiao Bai's French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller--which like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret. -- Simon Van Booy Xiao Bai has done something totally different. He didn't write about the 1930's and the concessions as background for his story-they are the subjects of his writing. He is writing in the tradition of Honore de Balzac. -- Feng Tao, book editor and critic in Shanghai A complex and fast-paced plot that twists around the murder, in the spring of 1931, of a Nanking politico on his arrival in Shanghai...A political and police novel, historical fresco, and mirror of human passions. -- Il Manifesto (Italy) """Rich with historical detail, Xiao Bai's French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller--which like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret."" -- Simon Van Booy ""Xiao Bai has done something totally different. He didn't write about the 1930's and the concessions as background for his story-they are the subjects of his writing. He is writing in the tradition of Honore de Balzac."" -- Feng Tao, book editor and critic in Shanghai ""A complex and fast-paced plot that twists around the murder, in the spring of 1931, of a Nanking politico on his arrival in Shanghai...A political and police novel, historical fresco, and mirror of human passions."" -- Il Manifesto (Italy)" Author InformationXiao Bai was born in 1968 in Shanghai. He is the author of Horny Hamlet, a prize-winning collection of essays, and the novel Game Point. In 2013 his novella, Xu Xiangbi the Spy, won the tenth annual Shanghai Literary Prize. French Concession is his first novel to be translated into English. He lives in Shanghai. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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