Donnerstag, Juli 10, 2008

Kurzgeschichten

Nach dem Barnes - der sehr gut war, jedenfalls besser als all die schlechten Rezensionen geschrieben haben - habe ich nun zu einem Band mit chinesischen Kurzgeschichten gegriffen und beginne heute morgen in der U-Bahn. Im Moment scheine ich ja irgendwie die Liebe zu China und chinesischen Autoren entdeckt zu haben.


Ha Jin
The Bridegroom

Synopsis: This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought are made all the more painful by this. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.

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