The Artisans
The Legacy of the Ancestors of Shen Village
$48.02
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history.
Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village’s rich history in the face of industrialization.
Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781662600753 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1662600755 |
| Author: | Shen Fuyu |
| Publisher: | Astra Publishing House |
| Imprint: | Astra House |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
”[Shen Fuyu’s] prose is steeped in contagious nostalgia, and he employs the universal language of emigration and exile, writing, ‘I am now an orphan, lost in the big city.’”
—Farah Abdessamad, The Atlantic
“Beautifully written, with an almost mythic tone, each of these vignettes captures a piece of village life and custom during a tumultuous century in Chinese history.”
—Booklist
“A Marcel Pagnol of provincial China in a beautifully accessible translation.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
About The Author
Shen Fuyu
Shen Fuyu was born in Jiangsu, China in 1970. At the age of 18, he left home and drifted around the country, taking up a variety of jobs–porter, clerk, and schoolteacher–and began his writing career. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Nanjing University in 1996, and has been working as a journalist for 20 years. Having published more than a dozen books, Shen is a full-time writer now and lives in Paris.
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