Distant Sunflower Fields by Li Juan
In this collection of dispatches from Chinas far northwestern province of Xinjiang, Li Juan recalls helping her mother to grow sunflowers from the barren earth. Li Juans skill as a writer captures the extraordinary everyday in this sensitive and lively record of both the fragility of life, and the joys and dignity of family bonds.Distant Sunflower Fields is like Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain.. you unconsciously forget the daily hubbub and sink silently into the embrace of the world her words have brought to being.
Xinran | author of The Good Women of China
Li Juan is a unique voice in the landscape of modern Chinese literature, working from the margins. In 2018, Distant Sunflower Fields won the prestigious Lu Xun Award. In her dispatches, Li Juan writes about the powerful simplicity of an unconquerable landscape set against it the kindness, suffering, and strength of three women working in fragile harmony to raise sunflowers from the barren earth. Christopher Payne has co-translated the award-winning novels Decoded and In the Dark by Mai Jia, and along with his frequent collaborator, Olivia Milburn, he’s also brought Jiang Zilong’s magnum opus, Empires of Dust, to an English-language audience. Christopher holds a PhD in Chinese literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and he has spent more than a decade teaching at postsecondary institutions, most notably Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, and The University of Manchester in the UK. In 2020 he took up a position at the University of Toronto, where he has continued to champion Chinese literature in the English-speaking world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781838905064 |
| ISBN 10 | 1838905065 |
| Title | Distant Sunflower Fields |
| Author | Li Juan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | ACA Publishing Limited |
| Year published | 2021-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lu Xun Literature Award 2018 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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