阿难:走出印度

by Hong Ying

Starting from a seemingly simple cultural travel, this book goes step by step to pull out the more and more complicated story lines and grand historical Ananda is not only a charming rock singer, but also a major business criminal wanted by the international police; the purpose of ''my'' trip to India is to find him for his girlfriend and for the police. He and his girlfriend are the lovers of the current life, and bear the animosities and disputes of the previous generation. As a result, the history of the last generation - Yunnan and Burma Anti-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, Hindu Religion and so on emerge layer by layer. In the end, all the conflict, redemption and unredemption are concentrated on the Banks of the Ganges.

Hardcover

About the author

Hong Ying was born in Chongqing in 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories. After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she as writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993-1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.

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