Results for "Goldblatt, Howard"

This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha Jin   A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway ... Read More about The Piano Tuner: A Novel

Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residentia... Read More about Fu Ping (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

One of the Nobel Prize Winners in LiteratureIdeal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar worksWritten by today’s most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelistMo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remar... Read More about Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel

Sweeping, humorous, and moving tales from one of contemporary China’s greatest writers. The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short stories. Remembering 1942 showcases six of his best, featuring a diverse cast of ordina... Read More about Remembering 1942

Winner of the Mao Dun Literature PrizeThe Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corrup... Read More about The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on the run to avoid the coming Japanese invasion. A humorous-yet-stark depiction of despair in the face of war and Westernization, Xiao's novel (completed by the translator) mirrors the identity struggles ... Read More about Ma Bo'le's Second Life