The Incarnations
Autor Susan Barkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2016
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015
Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
Hailed by "The New York Times" for its wildly ambitious...dazzling use of language and mesmerizing storytelling, "The Incarnations" is a brilliant, mind-expanding, and wildly original novel (Chris Cleave) about a Beijing taxi driver whose past incarnations over one thousand years haunt him through searing letters sent by his mysterious soulmate.
"Who are you? you must be wondering. I am your soulmate, your old friend, and I have come back to this city of sixteen million in search of you."
So begins the first letter that falls into Wang s lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi. The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang s previous lives from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride, to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan, to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars, and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution bound to his mysterious soulmate, spanning one thousand years of betrayal and intrigue.
As the letters continue to appear seemingly out of thin air, Wang becomes convinced that someone is watching him someone who claims to have known him for over a century. And with each letter, Wang feels the watcher growing closer and closer
Seamlessly weaving Chinese folklore, history, literary classics, and the notion of reincarnation, this" "is a taut and gripping novel that reveals the cyclical nature of history as it hints that the past is never truly settled."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501106798
ISBN-10: 1501106791
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
ISBN-10: 1501106791
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
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Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city's congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.
Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city's congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.