A moving and atmospheric debut about love and language set in modern-day Shanghai
Ruiyan Xu Libri
Ruiyan Xu, autrice di The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai, approfondisce temi complessi di identità ed eredità culturale nella sua opera. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da osservazioni perspicaci e da una sensibile rappresentazione delle relazioni umane. L'autrice esplora i sentimenti di appartenenza e alienazione, spesso ambientati sullo sfondo della sua multiculturale educazione. Xu intreccia magistralmente fili del passato e del presente, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza profondamente risonante.
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai. A Novel
- 340pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Li Jing, a happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion rips through the building. A shard of glass pierces Jing's forehead, obliterating his ability to speak Chinese. He can form only faltering phrases in the English he spoke as a child in Virginia, leaving him unable to communicate with his wife, Meiling, or their young son. Desperate, the family turns to an American neurologist, Rosalyn Neal, who finds herself as lost as Jing--whom she calls James--in this bewitching city, where the two form a bond that Meiling does not need a translator to understand. With gorgeous prose and a dazzling sense of place, The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai introduces a brilliant storyteller, who shows us the power of language in both our public and our private relationships.
