Village of Stone
基本信息·出版社：VINTAGE ·页码：192 页 ·出版日期：2005年08月 ·ISBN：0099459078 ·条形码：9780099459071 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种：英语 ·外文 ...
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基本信息·出版社：VINTAGE
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2005年08月
·ISBN：0099459078
·条形码：9780099459071
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：石头镇
内容简介 Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red live on the ground floor of a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is Beijing. The very epitome of disaffected, unfulfilled youth, their already fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package - as the smells of the sea flood her home, Coral is transported back to a traumatic childhood dominated by solitude, fear and shame. Born on a boat during a storm, and orphaned soon after, Coral was raised by silent grandparents amongst the stern and superstitious fishermen of the remote Village of Stone. Shunned from birth as a bringer of ill fortune, and exposed to the malevolent, threatening forces of a closed-off-society. Coral immersed herself in the minutiae of the landscape around her. At fifteen, she escaped to the big city and shut the door on the darkness of her past. As the narrative darts between the manic sprawl of Beijing and the hypnotic rhymes of a tiny coastal village, our narrator struggles to navigate a path through painful and hidden memories of a time of shame, and a loss of innocence.
But when an old, sick man appears on Coral's doorstep, the past and present shockingly converge, and she is forced to confront the secrets of her history in order to realise her dreams for the future. Beautifully poetic and lyrical, haunting yet infused with a quiet and gentle humour, "Village of Stone" is a startling and bewitching novel about memory, loss and the search for redemption, from one of contemporary China's freshes voices.
作者简介 Xiaolu Guo:
Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in the south of China in 1973. She was awarded an MA in Film from the Beijing Film Academy in 2000 and has worked as a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and filmmaker. Having studied documentary film at the National Film and Television School in London, she now lives in Berkshire and is working on a new novel. Her most recent documentary The Concrete Revolution has been screened at the Raindance Independent Film Festival, the Oxford International Documentary film festival and the New York film festival.
编辑推荐 Doris Lessing ...What could have been a misery of a story has the mysterious charm of a fairy tale or a legend.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
