Howard Goldblatt
Autore di Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China
Sull'Autore
Opere di Howard Goldblatt
Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Weatherhead Books on Asia) (2006) — A cura di — 14 copie
Opere correlate
The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chinese Literature in… (1978) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 114 copie
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic (2021) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 47 copie
The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China) (1996) — Series Editor — 47 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Goldblatt, Howard
- Nome legale
- Goldblatt, Howard
- Data di nascita
- 1939
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Istruzione
- Long Beach State College (BA)
San Francisco State University (MA 1971)
Indiana University (PhD 1974) - Attività lavorative
- Research Professor of Chinese
literary translator - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Translation Award 2000
Guggenheim Fellowship 2009
Utenti
Recensioni
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 23
- Utenti
- 172
- Popolarità
- #124,308
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 15
- Lingue
- 1
Each section starts with a very short, very gripping snippet –my favorite might be the choice of write-in candidates for election, which introduces the stories headed “Choices.” Section headings alone provide food for thought – “Controversy” leading to “Anticipation” to “Creatures” and more. And the story selection somehow makes the section transitions natural as well, no small achievement.
Short shorts are ideal for readers with short times to read. Make the coffee and meet a written stranger; catch a bus and smile at someone you’ll never see. Sometimes the tales keep you well in your own world of coffee and transport, and sometimes they transport you to another place of soldiers and bamboo poles. If one tale doesn’t grab you, it’s short enough to ignore. If another does, you’ll surely have to finish before putting down the book.
Fascinating, different, and an excellent read as this is: reader beware – reading one short short doesn’t take long. Reading a feast of them takes far longer than reading a novel.
Disclosure: I borrowed this from a friend.… (altro)