Treasures of Beethoven by John Suchet

Treasures of Beethoven by John Suchet

The life of a male prostitute-a jinan-in the Floating World of the Beautiful Way in ancient China in the waning years of the Chu dynasty, 200 BC, was a sensual but cruel, often foreshortened, bitter-sweet existence. The Beautiful Way weaves a complex, romantic, and all too often tragic tale of the interwoven lives of six jinan of one male brothel-the Cut Sleeve Nanleshijia. Laid against their linked stories are those of the managers and servants who guided these beautiful young men through their training, their initiation-in which they became bitten peaches-and beyond to burn as bright stars, and, in too many cases, sputter too early to ash.

While providing an intricate network of stories of adventure, sexual exploits, and entwining relationships, The Beautiful Way strives to capture the essence of the deliciously euphemistic Oriental world of men making love to other men in China's ancient past and covering two kingdoms. The stories of these six jinan and of the men who served, coveted, and mastered them are interwoven tales that go beyond the random act of sexual release between men. They offer more complex and context-richer studies by gathering age-old themes, exotic settings, and all-so-human characters up into the Floating World of the Orient in which men give themselves to other men-some more freely than others-for something in return, whether it is for money, position, power, survival, honor, service, devotion-or, not all that rarely, really, in unconditional love.

John Suchet presents Classic FM's flagship morning program. Before turning to classical music, John was one of the UK's best known television newscasters, regularly presenting ITN's flagship News at Ten, as well as all other bulletins, over a period of nearly 20 years. John has been honored for both roles. In 2012 he published the bestselling Beethoven: The Man Revealed, the latest in a series of in-depth books about the composer.

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ISBN 13	9780233003542
ISBN 10	0233003541
Titel	Treasures of Beethoven
Autor	John Suchet
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	Welbeck Publishing Group
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-05-10
Seitenanzahl	64
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.