Мо Янь 4.3 В книге "Устал рождаться и умирать" выдающийся китайский романист современности Мо Янь продолжает свое грандиозное летописание истории Китая XX века, уникальным образом сочетая грубый натурализм и высокую трагичность, хлесткую политическую сатиру и волшебный вымысел редкой художественной красоты.
Во время земельной реформы 1950 года расстреляли невинного человека — с работящими руками, сильной волей, добрым сердцем и незапятнанным прошлым. Гордую душу, вознегодовавшую на своих убийц не примут в преисподней — и герой вновь и вновь возвратится в мир, в разных обличиях будет ненавидеть и любить, драться до кровавых ран за свою правду, любоваться в лунном свете цветением абрикоса...
Роман "Устал рождаться и умирать", неоднократно признававшийся лучшим произведением писателя, был удостоен премии Ньюмена по китайской литературе.
Мо Янь рекомендует в первую очередь эту книгу для знакомства со своим творчеством: в ней затронуты основные вопросы китайской истории действительности, задействованы многие сюрреалистические приемы и достигнута максимальная свобода письма, когда автор излагает свои идеи «от сердца».
Написанный за сорок три (!) дня, роман, по собственному признанию Мо Яня, существовал в его сознании в течение многих десятилетий.
Мы живем в истории… Вся реальность – это продолжение истории.
Мо Янь
Yan Lianke4.0
Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy killed by his family's neighbours, this seminal novel tells the tragic and shocking story of the blood-contamination scandal in China's Henan province. Villagers, coerced into selling vast quantities of blood for money, are infected with the AIDS virus when they're injected with plasma to prevent the onset of anaemia. Whole villages are wiped out as the sickness spreads, but no one takes responsibility for the epidemic and nothing is done to care for those left behind. As Xiao tells of the fate of his village, his family is torn apart by suspicion and retribution. This searing novel relates the tragedy of one village among many and the absurdity of a situation caused and perpetuated by the Chinese government. With black humour and biting satire, Yan Lianke's novel is a powerful allegory of the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist China, tracing the relentless destruction of a community. 'I come from the bottom of society. All my relatives live in Henan, one of the poorest areas of China. When I think of people's situation there, it is impossible not to feel angry and emotional. Anger and passion are the soul of my work.' Yan Lianke
Jin Yong 0.0 On the Dragon Throne of China sits the young Manchu Emperor Kang Xi. Back in 1644, his great-uncle Dorgon broke through the Great Wall from Manchuria in the north-east and took the Imperial capital, Peking. Now twenty years later, the Manchus are quelling the last sparks of Chinese resistance, hounding down members of the underground movement known as the Triad Secret Society. But deep in the innermost recesses of the Forbidden City, with its maze of countless eunuchs, and the redoubtable troops of the Imperial Guard, a sinister conspiracy is brewing.
Into this historical setting bursts a young teenage scamp by the name of Trinket. Born in a whorehouse in the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, Trinket is an unlikely (and reluctant) kungfu practitioner, whose underhand tricks earn him many a harsh word from his masters. Foul-mouthed, lazy, opportunistic, but ultimately likeable and unforgettable, it is Trinket who holds together the picaresque episodes of this last (and many say best) Martial Arts novel by Hong Kong's master storyteller, Louis Cha.
As the poet and critic Stephen Soong has said, this is 'a roller-coaster of a novel, packed with thrills, with fun, rage, humour, and abuse, written in a style that flows and flashes like quicksilver.'
