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Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens

Name: Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens
Author: László Krasznahorkai
ISBN: 9780857425331

László Krasznahorkai

University of Chicago Pr.

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE! The only nonfiction work by Krasznahorkai available in English, a bracing account of traveling through China at the turn of the 21st century Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom's ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China's past and present--or the murky waters where the two meet? Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of...