Contemporary fiction books from China
Recommended contemporary fiction books (19)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from China for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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O zmierzchu by Hwang Sok-yong PL
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Młody mężczyzna podróżuje ze swoim wiernym psim towarzyszem przez Koreę Południową. W plecaku ma tylko empetrójkę, książkę i przybory do pisania. Codziennie przed zaśnięciem pisze list adresowany do osoby, którą poznał podczas podróży. Każdemu, z kim przez krótką chwilę dzieli się opowieściami, nadaje numer: 32, 239, 412, 751… Jest wśród nich nastolatka, która przyłapała swoich rodziców na zdradzie, sprzedawca słodyczy w pociągu, artysta tworzący instalacje z gum do żucia i pisarka, która próbuje sprzedać swoje książki, akompaniując sobie na harmonijce. Czy wędrówka Jihuna będzie miała swój kr... continue
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Owlish by Dorothy Tse EN
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With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself? In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition- a music box ballerina named Aliss who has tantalisingly sprung to life. Guided by his ... continue
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Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan EN
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The author of The Republic of Wine presents a new collection of innovative short stories, which range from the tragic to the comic and reflect the author's own disdain for bureaucracy and repression, that includes the title story, which is being made into a major film by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou.
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Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong EN
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The Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong is a poignant and lyrical depiction of rural life in early 20th-century China. Blending autobiography with fiction, the novel offers a deeply personal yet detached exploration of a small town on the banks of the Hulan River, as seen through the eyes of a young girl. Rather than following a conventional plot, the narrative presents a series of vivid sketches that capture the daily struggles, traditions, and harsh realities of peasant life. Since its publication, The Tales of Hulan River has been celebrated for its evocative prose and its stark yet poetic re... continue
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The Crazed : A Novel by Ha Jin EN
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Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family... Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.
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Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye EN
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A dramatic and moving YA novel by Ting-xing Ye, the internationally acclaimed author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, working with her husband, William Bell, author of the award-winning novels for young adults Forbidden City, Zack, and Stones. . Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, a typical Canadian teenager until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on television. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child... continue
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Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo EN
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Seeking her fortune in Beijing, Fenfang Wang leaves her rural farm to pursue her dreams in the city, lands a job as a film extra, falls for two unsuitable young men, and finally finds her true calling.
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UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo EN
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Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing u a spinning plate in the sky u and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. It's not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surve... continue
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Yellowface : A Novel by R. F. Kuang EN
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So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her