A Summer Beyond Your Reach
"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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1642360295
ISBN13:9781642360295
Release Date:August 2021
Publisher:Wyrm Publishing
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"
Age Range:13 to 16 years
Grade Range:Grades 8 to 11
Related Subjects
13 - 17 Years Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & FantasyCustomer Reviews
1 rating
My favorite Sci-Fi author
Published by Shweta Krishnan , 2 years ago
This is very poetic science fiction. The stories not only introduced me to expansive new worlds, but they really moved me.
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