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Moisés en la llanura: Dos novelas cortas
En “Moisés en la llanura”, el caso de una serie de asesinatos sin resolver, ocurridos a mediados de los años noventa del siglo pasado, es retomado luego de que un par de oficiales son atacados con el arma de uno de los agentes involucrados en dicha investigación, quien quedó en coma durante una operación encubierta. Zhuang Shu, joven y brillante detective, toma el cargo del caso debido a su agudeza. Sin sospecharlo, esta pesquisa lo llevará a desenterrar recuerdos olvidados de su infancia. En “El aeronauta”, un joven banquero es requerido por su familia para dar con el paradero de uno de sus tíos, un hombre en el que toda la familia había depositado sus esperanzas. Luego de dilapidar gran parte del patrimonio que le fue prestado para emprender numerosas aventuras financieras, el tío ha desaparecido sin dejar huella. Para dar con él, el protagonista de esta historia recorrerá los bajos fondos de su ciudad natal, hasta descubrir que el hombre a quien busca sigue empeñado en demostrar que la familia no se equivocó al confiar en él.
- GenresChina
160 pages, Paperback
Published June 7, 2023
About the author
Shuang Xuetao
22 books60 followersShuang Xuetao (Chinese: 双雪涛; born September 8, 1983, in Shenyang), is a contemporary Chinese novelist. He graduated from the Jilin University School of Law.
In 2010, Shuang happened to see that the newly established China Times International Chinese-language Film and Fiction Award was seeking submissions. An employee of the Liaoning branch of the China Development Bank at the time, he wrote his first novel, Gargoyle in just 20 days, winning the award. In 2012, Shuang was shortlisted for the 14th Taipei Literature Awards, winning a cash-prize of 200,000 NTD, becoming the first mainland Chinese author to win the prize. That same year, Shuang quit his job to devote himself to writing full-time. In 2015, he left Shenyang to attend further studies in creative writing at Renmin University in Beijing.
Since 2016, Shuang has published the novels Tianwu's Account, Era of the Deaf and Dumb and the short story collections The Aviator, The Hunter, among other works. The short story "Assassinate the Novelist", included in the collection The Aviator, has been adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Ning Hao.
His short story collection Moses on the Plain was translated into English as Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Jeremy Tiang, and published by the Metropolitan Books imprint of Henry Holt and Company in April 2022. The book is credited with initiating the Dongbei renaissance in Chinese literature.
(Chinese: 双雪涛)
In 2010, Shuang happened to see that the newly established China Times International Chinese-language Film and Fiction Award was seeking submissions. An employee of the Liaoning branch of the China Development Bank at the time, he wrote his first novel, Gargoyle in just 20 days, winning the award. In 2012, Shuang was shortlisted for the 14th Taipei Literature Awards, winning a cash-prize of 200,000 NTD, becoming the first mainland Chinese author to win the prize. That same year, Shuang quit his job to devote himself to writing full-time. In 2015, he left Shenyang to attend further studies in creative writing at Renmin University in Beijing.
Since 2016, Shuang has published the novels Tianwu's Account, Era of the Deaf and Dumb and the short story collections The Aviator, The Hunter, among other works. The short story "Assassinate the Novelist", included in the collection The Aviator, has been adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Ning Hao.
His short story collection Moses on the Plain was translated into English as Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Jeremy Tiang, and published by the Metropolitan Books imprint of Henry Holt and Company in April 2022. The book is credited with initiating the Dongbei renaissance in Chinese literature.
(Chinese: 双雪涛)
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October 20, 2025
Un policial truncado en el que no importa si el crimen se resuelve, sino el modo en que se van trenzando y resolviendo las tensiones sociales e históricas del noreste de China. Shuang Xuetao presenta a sus personajes de forma sutil, en modos que no se comprenden hasta una segunda lectura. Eso lo convierte más en un cuento largo que en una novela corta, ya que el cuento es un género para la relectura. Así, le lectore no termina de comprender por qué los personajes hacen lo que hacen, aunque de un modo íntimo lo comprende. La historia está narrada con maestría, con una estructura complejísima que Shuang Xuetao consigue volver simple.
La traducción también está muy bien jeje
La traducción también está muy bien jeje
March 30, 2024
entretenido de leer, un poco murakami
July 21, 2026
Mucha malinconia, y muchos personajes como un compendio mucho más estrecho de los cien años de soledad. Poca tensión en general, muy entretenida la mezcla de les narrantes
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