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Name: Go Ask the River
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Author: Eaton, Evelyn
ISBN: 9781848190924

por Evelyn Eaton; Foreword by Chungliang Al Huang

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Here is the haunting story of the great female poet Hung Tu, who flourished in the ninth century during one of the great periods of Chinese literature. The daughter of a Government official far from the capital, on the Silk River, she was, most unusually, brought up with her brothers whom she far outshone. Falling on evil times, her father sells her to the best Blue House on the Silk River. Hung Tu's poetry and calligraphy bring her great renown, and the story traces her rise from Flower-in-the-Mist to Official Hostess at the court of the governors of the Silk City, and her love affair with the poet Yuan Chen. Set against the backdrop of the scholars, poets, officials, and warring factions of ninth century China, this wonderful story reconstructs one of the great periods of China - turbulent, cruel, yet with a sense of beauty remarkable by any standards and in any age. Go Ask the River is a tale not only of historical China, but of the human struggle to discover how to be alive.

Detalhes

Título Go Ask the River
Autor Evelyn Eaton; Foreword by Chungliang Al Huang
Encadernação Brochura
Edição Reprint
Páginas 290
Volumes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Singing Dragon
Data de publicação 2011-12-01
ISBN 9781848190924 / 1848190921
Peso 0.76 libras (0.34 kg)
Dimensão 8.69 x 5.34 x 0.61 in. (22.07 x 13.56 x 1.55 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2011046587
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Sobre o autor

Evelyn Eaton (1902-1983) was born in Montreux, Switzerland to Anglophile Canadian parents, and educated in England and France. She began writing while still in her teens; her first collection of poems was published in England in 1923 (the same year that she was presented at court) and her first novel in 1925. Her adult life was rich and varied: she became an American citizen at the age of 42, and was a war correspondent in China, Burma and India in 1945, then a lecturer at Columbia University from 1949 to 1951. Partly Native American (related to the Algonquians of New Brunswick) her later years became increasingly focused on Native American culture and mysticism. She wrote thirteen novels, five volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, and seven other books. For many years she was a contributor to The New Yorker and other journals. Go Ask the River was her last novel.

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