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January cheap tickets 20, 2015 | "Shanghai smells like mildew. As soon as I step off the plane, cheap tickets is a familiar wave warm, moist air toward me. In my memory, it smells just as in the time of the plum rains. It's already August the plum rains are long gone, but the mold air is not lost. "
Twilight So begins over Shanghai, the debut novel by Yue Tao. The book weaves effortlessly fast life in contemporary Shanghai with complex events during the Cultural Revolution. Lan, a Chinese orphan, was raised by her uncle and aunt in Shanghai. After ten years living in Amsterdam, she returns to her hometown.
The thrilling story quest is a quest of a young Chinese woman to her identity. She feels at home in the west, but get - precisely the years of distance - interest in Chinese traditions they themselves were previously unaware of. A mysterious Chinese handbook on cricket fights is the thread of the story.
The book is also a quest for the truth. If Lan asking questions about events that happened a few decades ago, she invariably gets vague, evasive answers. Little by little it becomes clear what happened in those chaotic years of the Cultural Revolution in the suburbs of Shanghai cheap tickets and why many Chinese events in that period prefers tuck away as far as possible.
Chinese perspective On 15 January, the book was presented at the Athenaeum bookstore in Amsterdam. cheap tickets Peter Potman, former consul general in Shanghai, said at the launch that it is important to take note of the Chinese perspective on China. Yue Tao is an excellent interpreter of that perspective. And precisely because she has been living for years in the Netherlands, she knows how to do that too for a non-Chinese audience in a very appealing way.
The novel appeared in 2012 in the Chinese cheap tickets under the title Xishuai Hong (Red cricket). Annelous Stiggelbout made a careful and ongoing translation. Yue Tao itself works on an English translation later this year on, the title Shanghai Nocturnes. cheap tickets She is working on a sequel novel that will play mostly cheap tickets in Amsterdam.
Writer Yue Tao (as in China usual, her surname cheap tickets front) studied English language and literature in Shanghai and social sciences in Amsterdam. Since 2000, she lives in the Netherlands and she works at the Rotterdam School of Management. Her articles have been published in various Chinese- and English-language media.
Zinderend Yue Tao has with Twilight above Shanghai Ask a sizzling novel. You smell while reading the scents of Shanghai, you feel the damp late summer and walk with the main character along the lonely twenty flats in the southwest of the city, in search of memories of the past. A must if you want to understand more of China now and thirty years ago.
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