Black Ice

Autori

• Trevor Hay

Parametri

• Narrativa

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Black Ice tells the story of Mo Bing, from her underground work in Shanghai as a Communist Party cadre during the Civic War, through denunciation in the Cultural Revolution to rehabilitation and retirement in the 1990s.This fictionalised account of the life of a Communist revolutionary explores the themes of contending loyalties, unrealised relationships, and bitter political ironies experienced during the turbulent years of Mao's China.This work is not a translation. Nor is it a memoir or biography. This is a novel conceived and written in English, rediscovering for English literature authentic Chinese cultural and linguistic forms, reminiscent of the works of Lin Yutang and Pearl S. Buck.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1997

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