Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality.
The Art of the Novel
MILAN KUNDERA
FABER & FABER/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH THE 100 FINEST SHORT STORIES EVER WRITTEN
DAVID MILLER
HEAD OF ZEUS LTD
DESERT HUNTER
XUEMO
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHINA PUBLISHING HOUSE
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