Author: Louis C. Hennick
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589809482
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Rouge Street
Author: Shuang Xuetao
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250835860
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Rouge Street gives voice to an intriguing cast of characters left behind by China’s economic miracle . . . Shuang pulls no punches . . . From start to finish, his scope is close to the ground, his language sparingly emotive and unobtrusive. He never flinches. As a result, we don’t look away either." —Jing Tsu, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Introduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir. 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 birthplace, boasts an illustrious past—legend holds that the emperor’s makeup was manufactured here. But while the city enjoyed renewed importance as an industrial hub under Mao Zedong, China’s subsequent transition from communism to a market economy led to an array of social ills—unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce, suicide—that gritty Shenyang epitomizes. Orbiting the toughest neighborhood of a postindustrial city whose vast, inhospitable landscape makes every aspect of life a struggle, these many-voiced missives are united by Shuang Xuetao’s singular style—one that balances hardscrabble naturalism with the transcendent and faces the bleak environs with winning humor. Rouge Street illuminates not only the hidden pains of those left behind in an extraordinary economic boom but also the inspirations and grace they, nevertheless, manage to discover.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250835860
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"Rouge Street gives voice to an intriguing cast of characters left behind by China’s economic miracle . . . Shuang pulls no punches . . . From start to finish, his scope is close to the ground, his language sparingly emotive and unobtrusive. He never flinches. As a result, we don’t look away either." —Jing Tsu, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Introduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir. 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 birthplace, boasts an illustrious past—legend holds that the emperor’s makeup was manufactured here. But while the city enjoyed renewed importance as an industrial hub under Mao Zedong, China’s subsequent transition from communism to a market economy led to an array of social ills—unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce, suicide—that gritty Shenyang epitomizes. Orbiting the toughest neighborhood of a postindustrial city whose vast, inhospitable landscape makes every aspect of life a struggle, these many-voiced missives are united by Shuang Xuetao’s singular style—one that balances hardscrabble naturalism with the transcendent and faces the bleak environs with winning humor. Rouge Street illuminates not only the hidden pains of those left behind in an extraordinary economic boom but also the inspirations and grace they, nevertheless, manage to discover.
Street Railways of Louisiana
Author: Louis C. Hennick
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589809482
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589809482
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
National Register of Historic Places, 1966-1994
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891332541
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Lists buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that possess historical significance as defined by the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, in every state.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891332541
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Lists buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that possess historical significance as defined by the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, in every state.
Southern Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.
Storm Data
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Storms
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Storms
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City Guide and Business Mirror
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Alphabetic List of Lenders
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Student aid
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Student aid
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author:
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Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Merchant Vessels of the United States...
Author: United States. Coast Guard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description