K: The Art of Love

ISBN-13: 9780241950692 / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Hong Ying

Opis

Set in 1930s China, this true story is a tragic tale of romance, sexual desire and ultimately death. Julian Bell, the darling of the Bloomsbury set, arrives in China and is hungry for experience. He finds it in the form of the beautiful Lin Cheng.

Recenzje

Written with a wonderfully intense simplicity - it's tough, uncompromising, direct and tense with strong emotion, but also full of poetry and grace Andrew Motion

O autorze

Hong Ying was born into a sailor's family in Chongqing on the Yangtze River in Southwest China. An author and poet, she began her career as a full-time writer in the early 1980s having studied creative writing at Lu Xun Creative Writing Academy and Fudan University.

She is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels: K: The Art of Love (which won the Prix de Rome in 2005), The Concubine of Shanghai, Peacock Cries and Summer of Betrayal. Her autobiography, Daughter of the River, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and many of her works have been turned into television series and films. Her latest memoir, Good Children of the Flowers, a sequel to Daughter of the River, won Asia Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year Award 2009. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter.