The book of Shanghai : a city in short fiction / edited by Jin Li & Dai Congrong.
Material type: TextPublisher: [Manchester, England] : Comma Press, 2020Description: xiv, 167 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781912697274 (pbk.)
- 23 895.130108 LIJ 020424
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 895.130108 LIJ 020424 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020424 |
Ah Fang's lamp / Wang Anyi -- Snow / Chen Danyan -- Bengal tiger / Xia Shang -- Woman dancing under stars / Teng Xiaolan -- The novelist in the attic / Shen Dacheng -- The story of Ah-Ming / Wang Zhanhei -- The lost / Fu Yuehui -- Transparency / Xiao Bai -- Suzhou River / Cai Jun -- State of trance / Chen Qiufan.
"As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man's only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company's attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author's permanent residence... As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating through the city's streets... The characters in this literary exploration of one of the world's biggest cities are all on a mission. Whether it is responding to events around them, or following some impulse of their own, they are defined by their determination - a refusal to lose themselves in a city that might otherwise leave them anonymous, disconnected, alone."--Back cover.
Text in English, translated from Chinese.
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