A Summer Beyond Your Reach
Author
Original Works
Translators
Foreword / Afterword
Ken Liu
Format
Collection / Anthology
Language
Year
2021
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
288
ISBN
9781642360295
"There is perhaps no voice better suited to tellthe stories of contemporary China's conflicted, layered reality. China is atonce a very young and a very old country, and as much guided by revolutionaryfervor as by the heavy memories of history. Where the techniques of literaryrealism often seem powerless before the many contradictions of the country'sheadlong plunge into uneven development, Xia Jia has discovered a way to usespeculative fiction, with its rich semantic web of fantastic metaphors, derivedfrom both the language of magic and science, to convey the psychological truthof being Chinese at this moment."-Ken Liu, from theIntroduction— Google Books
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Table of Contents Introduction by Ken Liu Six Views of a Spring Festival The Psychology Game Up in The Air Meeting Anna On Miluo River A Time Beyond Your Reach Tick-Tock Eternal Summer Dream Heat Island Duet of Love Light of Their Days All You Need Is Love Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse Tongtong's Summer About the Author Permissions Appreciations
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