The invisibility cloak:
"The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing...where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods...and he's a loser. Well into his forties, he's divorced (and still doting on his ex), c...
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| Summary: | "The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing...where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods...and he's a loser. Well into his forties, he's divorced (and still doting on his ex), childless, and living with his sister (her husband wants him out) in an apartment at the edge of town with a crack in the wall the wind from the north blows through while he gets by, just, by making customized old-fashioned amplifiers for the occasional rich audio-obsessive. He has contempt for his clients and contempt for himself. The only things he really likes are Beethoven and vintage speakers. Then an old friend tips him off about a special job...a little risky but just don't ask too many questions...and can it really be that this hopeless loser wins? This provocative and seriously funny exercise in the social fantastic by the brilliantly original Ge Fei, one of China's finest living writers, is among the most original works of fiction to come out of China in recent years. It is sure to appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and other fabulists of contemporary irreality"... |
| Physical Description: | 126 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781681370200 |
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| spelling | Ge, Fei 1964- (DE-588)12986109X aut Pi feng The invisibility cloak Ge Fei ; translated by Canaan Morse New York New York Review Books [2016] © 2016 126 Seiten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Classics "The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing...where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods...and he's a loser. Well into his forties, he's divorced (and still doting on his ex), childless, and living with his sister (her husband wants him out) in an apartment at the edge of town with a crack in the wall the wind from the north blows through while he gets by, just, by making customized old-fashioned amplifiers for the occasional rich audio-obsessive. He has contempt for his clients and contempt for himself. The only things he really likes are Beethoven and vintage speakers. Then an old friend tips him off about a special job...a little risky but just don't ask too many questions...and can it really be that this hopeless loser wins? This provocative and seriously funny exercise in the social fantastic by the brilliantly original Ge Fei, one of China's finest living writers, is among the most original works of fiction to come out of China in recent years. It is sure to appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and other fabulists of contemporary irreality"... Mystery fiction gsafd Suspense fiction gsafd FICTION / Psychological bisacsh FICTION / Literary bisacsh FICTION / Crime bisacsh Divorced men China Fiction FICTION / Psychological FICTION / Literary FICTION / Crime China Social conditions Fiction Morse, Canaan (DE-588)1127256017 trl Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ge, Fei, 1964- author Invisibility cloak. New York : NYRB Classics, 2016 |
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