The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King

The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children

Three classic novellasâ€•The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Childrenâ€•that completely altered the landscape of contemporary Chinese fiction.
When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, â€œAh Cheng feverâ€ spread across the country. Never before had a fiction writer dealt with the Cultural Revolution in such Daoist-Confucian terms, discarding Mao-speak, and mixing both traditional and vernacular elements with an aesthetic that emphasized not the hardships and miseries of those years, but the joys of close, meaningful friendships. In The King of Chess, a studentâ€™s obsession with finding worthy chess opponents symbolizes his pursuit of the dao; in The King of Childrenâ€•made into an award-winning film by Chen Kaige, the director of Farewell My Concubineâ€•an educated youth is sent to teach at an impoverished village school where one boyâ€™s devotion to learning is so great he is ready to spend 500 days copying his teacherâ€™s dictionary; and in the title novella a peasantâ€™s innate connection to a giant primeval tree takes a tragic turn when a group of educated youth arrive to clear the mountain forest. The King of Trees is a masterpiece of world literature, full of passion and noble emotions that stir the inner chambers of the heart.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 96648
ReleaseDate 2010-06-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811218665

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	96648
ReleaseDate	2010-06-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811218665

The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children

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