Name: The Seventh day (Vintage International)
Price: 307.00 ZAR
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Author: Yu Hua
ISBN: 9780804172059

portada The Seventh day (Vintage International)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yu Hua

Publisher

Random House

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780804172059

Synopsis "The Seventh day (Vintage International) "

Yang Fei was born on a train as it raced across the Chinese countryside. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At forty-one, he meets an unceremonious death, and lacking the money for a burial plot, must roam the afterworld aimlessly. There, over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of people he’s lost. As he retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, his beautiful ex-wife, his neighbors who perished in the demolition of their homes. Vivid, urgent, and panoramic, Yang Fei’s passage movingly traces the contours of his vast nation—its absurdities, its sorrows, and its soul. This searing novel affirms Yu Hua’s place as the standard-bearer of Chinese fiction.

Yu Hua

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Nació en 1960 en Hangzhou (Zhejiang). Trabajó como dentista durante cinco años antes de empezar a escribir en 1983. En 2002 se convirtió en el primer autor chino en ganar el prestigioso James Joyce Foundation Award. Es autor de Gritos en la llovizna (2007; Seix Barral, 2016), Brothers (Seix Barral, 2009) y ¡Vivir! (1992; Seix Barral, 2010), galardonada con el premio italiano Grinzane Cavour. Crónica de un vendedor de sangre (1995; Seix Barral, 2014) y ¡Vivir! fueron elegidos dos de los libros más influyentes de la década de 1990 en China. La ciudad escondida (2021 ; Seix Barral, 2025) es su más reciente y celebrada novela a nivel internacional. Zhang Yimou dirigió la adaptación cinematográfida de ¡Vivir!, que fue galardonada en el Festival de Cannes con el Gran Premio del Jurado. Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de veinte lenguas.

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