Heart Sutra - Softcover

Lianke, Yan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529925053 ISBN 13: 9781529925050

Verlag: Vintage, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptation

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.

** 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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Yan Lianke is the author of works including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Day the Sun Died. He has been awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Royal Society of Literature International Writer Lifetime Award and was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. He was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1529925053
• ISBN 13: 9781529925050
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien