The Incarnations Betrayal and intrigue in China lived again and again by a Beijing taxi driver across a thousand years
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Verlag:Vermilion
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48366
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.04.2015
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
480
Maße (L/B/H)
19,5/12,8/3,2 cm
Gewicht
329 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-78416-000-5
'You must be wondering who I am.
I am your soulmate, your old friend,
and I have come back to this city of sixteen million in search of you'
A sweeping tale of love, betrayal and sacrifice told through five lives over a thousand years of Chinese history
'Reads as China's Midnight's Children. Utterly remarkable' Independent
'Kaleidoscopically imaginative ' The New Yorker
'An immersive, stunningly weird tale' Guardian
Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city's congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. He is being warned: Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.
Other letters follow, and Wang will re-live five lives with his soulmate:
- as spirit-brides escaping sacrifice in the Tang Dynasty;
- young slaves dashing through the desert after the Mongol invasion;
- palace concubines plotting to kill their murderous emperor;
- fisherman assisting a bloody kidnapping in the Opium War;
- Red Guards turning against their schoolfriends during the Cultural revolution.
As each past life unfolds, Wang feels his ghostly soulmate. In the shadows. Growing closer ...
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A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction
PRAISE FOR SUSAN BARKER:
'[A] kaleidoscopically imaginative novel...Barker stitches together an unnervingly perceptive portrait of China and of the enduring influence that its past has on the present' THE NEW YORKER
'A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal, this is the most extraordinary work of imagination you'll read all year' ADAM JOHNSON, Winner of the PULITZER Prize for Fiction
'Erudite, intriguing and compulsively readable, Susan Barker, a born story-teller, has written one of the most remarkable novels of recent years' JOHN BOYNE
'A brilliant, mind-expanding, and wildly original novel' CHRIS CLEAVE
'A hallucinatory ride. Highly recommend' ANNA HOPE
For OLD SOULS: 'Sinister, mysterious and gorgeously realised.' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time.
'Suspend your disbelief and flow along with this masterful novel' The Guardian
'[An] immersive and subtle horror story, weaving a delicately complex plot that leaves the reader with a lingering sense of dread.' The Spectator
'Super-sophisticated horror, as indebted to literary fiction as it is to gothic gore.' The Times
'As unnerving as it is beautifully written... A mesmerising, genre-bending read.' The i Paper
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