<i>Heart Sutra</i>...has <b>startling pleasures</b>... similes are sharp, synaesthetic and anchored in the lives of the characters

The Telegraph

<i>Heart Sutra </i>is a <b>warm-hearted</b>, if not gentle, satire that skewers religious institutions without mocking faith itself . . . <b>A deeply satisfying read</b> . . . Yan's storytelling has a <b>luminous, irrepressible quality</b>

- Lily Meyer, NPR

<b>Picaresque</b>, but with serious matters of <b>faith, love, and political wrangling</b> at its <b>fast-beating heart</b>

Kirkus (starred review)

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<i>Heart Sutra </i>brings <b>clarity </b>to the dynamic and fraught relations between organised religion and the party on a broader scale and <b>does not shy from difficult histories</b>

- Bryan Karetnyk, Financial Times

<b>[An] otherworldly novel</b>

Asian Art Newspaper, *Books of the Year*

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationTo tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for the sake of stories that everyone lives on this earth.Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily temptation to return to secular life and abandon the ascetic ideals that are her calling. Everything seems to dangle by a thread. But when she meets a Daoist student called Mingzheng, an inexorable romance of mythic proportions takes hold of her.In this profoundly otherworldly novel, Chinese master Yan Lianke remakes the campus novel in typically visionary fashion, dropping readers into an allegorical world ostensibly far from our own, but which reflects our own questions and struggles right back at us.** Beautiful edition illustrated throughout with beautiful original papercuts **'One of China's greatest living authors' Guardian'His talent cannot be ignored' New York Times'China's foremost literary satirist' Financial Times
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Heart Sutra...has startling pleasures... similes are sharp, synaesthetic and anchored in the lives of the characters

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784744663
Publisert
2023-03-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Chatto & Windus
Vekt
500 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles, The Day the Sun Died and Hard Like Water. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the prix Femina Étranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing.