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Publication Name
Columbia University Press
Translator
John Balcom
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
Dust Jacket
ISBN
9780231147347
Book Title
Running Mother and Other Stories
Book Series
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan Ser.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Item Length
0.9 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.1 in
Author
Songfen Guo
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Topic
Asian / Chinese, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Width
0.7 in
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231147341
ISBN-13
9780231147347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66574605

Product Key Features

Book Title
Running Mother and Other Stories
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asian / Chinese, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author
Songfen Guo
Book Series
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-011613
Reviews
"Guo refreshingly and poignantly portrays the political reverberations of Taiwan's turbulent 20th century." -- Paul Mozur, Far Eastern Economic Review, A very valuable publication, and an important addition [to] Columbia's indispensable Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series., "Guo's impressionistic style hones in on the details of everyday life... [and] captures moments of rare beauty." -- Melissa McClements, Financial Times, "Guo's compassion, insight and understated style shine through, tying his characters' lives to the contemporary cultural questions with grace and skill." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "A very valuable publication, and an important addition [to] Columbia's indispensable Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series." -- Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times, Guo's impressionistic style hones in on the details of everyday life... [and] captures moments of rare beauty., Guo's compassion, insight and understated style shine through, tying his characters' lives to the contemporary cultural questions with grace and skill., Guo refreshingly and poignantly portrays the political reverberations of Taiwan's turbulent 20th century.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
CLASSIFICATION_METADATA
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Dewey Decimal
895.1/352
Table Of Content
Foreword: Summer 1961 Introduction: Guo Songfen, Taiwan's "Lost" Modernist Moon Seal Wailing Moon Running Mother Clover Snow Blind Brightly Shine the Stars Tonight
Synopsis
Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and an allegory of the trauma in which they live. In "Running Mother," a man is torn between his fear of abandonment and his guilt over leaving his family, and therefore his symbolic home, behind. "Moon Seal" follows a woman caught between traditional and modern worlds. In "Wailing Moon," a wife learns a shocking secret after her husband's death, realizing he was never the man she thought him to be. Set in the United States and Taiwan, "Snow Blind" is a multigenerational triptych that portrays the consequences of spiritual malaise, and in "Brightly Shines the Stars Tonight," a general wrestles with issues of memory and self-perception in the final moments before his execution. Guo Songfen's stories play with the hazards of miscommunication, the malevolence of human will, the arbitrary nature of fate, and the burden of historical circumstance. As the general discovers, life is a game of chess, the outcome of which is never certain though it might be logically designed. Showcasing the best of Taiwan's modernist style, these stories are not only an indictment of the human condition but also a powerful comment on the experience of postretrocession Taiwan.
LC Classification Number
PL2860.U56A6 2009
Copyright Date
2009
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