By Sheng Keyi
ISBN-10: 192214665X
ISBN-13: 9781922146656
Sheng Keyi used to be born in Hunan province in 1973 and lives in Beijing. dying Fugue is her 6th novel, and the second one to be released in English translation, after Northern women (2012). it's a courageous paintings of speculative fiction, a pass among Cloud Atlas and 1984, scathing in its irony, creative in its use of allegory, and acute in its realizing of the ability of writing. The mind's eye that drives it's exuberant and unconstrained.
In a wide sq. within the centre of Beiping, the capital of Dayang, a big tower of excrement appears to be like sooner or later, inflicting unease within the inhabitants, and eventually frequent civil unrest. The protest, during which poets play an immense half, is positioned down violently. Haunted via the violence, and by way of his failure to help his female friend Qizi, who's one of many protest leaders, Yuan Mengliu offers up poetry in favour of medication, and the antiseptic surroundings of the working theatre. yet each year he travels looking for Qizi, and on the sort of journeys, stuck in a typhoon, he wakes to discover himself in an ideal society referred to as Swan Valley. during this utopia, as he quickly discovers, impulse and feeling are thoroughly managed, and each element of lifestyles regulated for the nice of the country, with poor effects.
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