- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Flamingo; Auflage: New Ed (15. Oktober 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0007102887
- ISBN-13: 978-0007102884
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.627.472 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Andrea Barrett is best known for her novel The Voyage of The Narwhal and a collection of short stories, Ship Fever. In both these books scientific discovery, history and the natural world are wonderful backdrops to intimate, personal dramas. The Middle Kingdom is an earlier work but the same keen sense of curiosity about life and the way to live it glimmers on the page.
The novel opens in the recent past, in Tiananmen Square. There is smoke, gunfire and confusion, a sense of history being destroyed and re-made into something else. In the midst of this historical shattering, is a character study of an American woman teaching natural history in a Chinese laboratory. Grace Hoffmeier's story starts off "stunted and stilted, common and sad", but by the end of the novel she has found the "middle way--not too much looking back. Not too much dreaming ahead".
Grace's is an American tale, one of stifling family conflicts; and two bad marriages that look like escape routes, but are just another way of being trapped. Grace overeats to compensate for all her mistakes, to swaddle her desires, to stop herself thinking: "that was how I existed then: push, shut, close, seal, deny, forget". But on a trip to China, with her husband Walter, a meeting at a scientific conference forces her to reassesses her past and take control of her future. Andrea Barrett's prose is lyrical and sure, blending fact with fiction in an elegant meditation on personal freedom and political repression. Grace's story is shadowed by real events in China, giving her voyage of discovery an extraordinary vividness and subtlety. Barrett is unsentimental about country and person and the novel is all the more engaging for of it. --Eithne Farry -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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'An exhilarating book!wonderful and generous insights!Ms Barrett has captured a truly authentic Beijing.' Amy Tan 'With "The Middle Kingdom", Andrea Barrett further consolidates her position as one of our most thoughtful chroniclers of contemporary life!"The Middle Kingdom" is another impressive milestone in what promises to be a long and fruitful literary journey by an accomplished American author.' Cleveland Plain Dealer 'Andrea Barrett does not flinch from large subjects, yet her uncanny investigations into human curiosity are sensual and soul-enhancing, and always underlit by splendid intelligence.' Howard Norman, author of 'The Bird Artist' 'Her work stands out for its intelligence!the overall effect is quietly dazzling.' New York Times
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