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1) Death's end
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
623 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR, Published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Tor paperback edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people's private dreams with President Xi's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, three properties and a bevy of mistresses texting him night and day. But just as Ma Daode is putting the finishing touches to his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, things take an uneasy...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there....
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xvii, 321 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This posthumous collection contains virtually all new translations of Chang's six novellas, which are well known in both China and Taiwan. Set in China and featuring characters with ties to Shanghai, Chang's birthplace, the stories are further tied together by relationship issues and the question of (true) love at a time when women were expected to marry well and discussion of class, divorce, and illicit affairs was taboo. Library Journal
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc
xix, 216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, fights a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks. Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami. Located in China's frigid Northeast, Shenyang, the author's...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Avatar Aangand his friends confront an ancient spirit determined to destroy a town on land sacred to the Air Nomads, Toph and Aang find themselves on opposing sides in a battle of gigantic proportions. If Toph and Aang don't put aside their differences, there's more at stake than just their friendship!
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