Name: Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Handheld Classics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
ISBN: 9781999944872

portada Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Handheld Classics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Handheld Press

Autor

Jan Jacob Slauerhoff

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781999944872

Categorías

Aventuras de ficción

Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Handheld Classics) (en Inglés)

Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (Autor) · Handheld Press · Tapa Blanda

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Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) was a ship's doctor serving in south-east Asia, and is one of the most important twentieth-century Dutch-language writers. His 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China. Slauerhoff's narrator is a Belfast ship's radio operator, desperate to escape the sea, who travels inland on a gun-runner's mission. He moves through extraordinary settings of opium salons, the house of a Cantonese watch-mender, the siege of Shanghai, the great flood on the western plains, and the discovery of oil by the uncomprehending overlord in the hidden city of Chungking. The fantasy ending transforms the novel from travelogue and adventure to existential meditation. But running like a thread of darkness through the story is opium, from poppy head harvesting to death through addiction. This translation by David McKay, winner of the 2018 Vondel Prize, is the first English edition of Slauerhoff's most accessible and enthralling novel. The Introduction is by Slauerhoff expert Arie Pos and Wendy Gan of the University of Hong Kong.