The Flowers of War
$36.67
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 January 2013
Summary
This powerful novel is now a major film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou starring Christian Bale.
December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow.
Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Jap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099569626 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099569620 |
| Author: | Geling Yan, Nicky Harman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Great storytelling
I have long been a fan of Geling Yan’s fiction for its power to disturb us out of our ordinary worlds. She is a writer of importance. In spare and unsentimental prose, she shows us the human condition in extreme times. The Flowers of War is yet another accomplished and riveting tale that touches us at the center of our being. – Amy Tan
Yan masterfully depicts bubbling tensions…testament to the bravery of women in the most horrifying of circumstances…(beautifully translated by Nicky Harman) – Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore * Independent *
The novel is rewarding for its spare prose and subtle treatment of the conflicts, quarrels, racial ambiguities and acts of transcendent heroism woven into the story… There are doomed love stories, amid the tragedies, but they are drawn from a deeper well and speak to the persistence of humanity in the grimmest of circumstances – Isabel Hilton * Guardian *
Powerful and poignant * Press Association *
Great storytelling * Observer *
Intensely cinematic * Big Issue *
Deft exploration of the wondrous and sad inscrutability of the human heart. * New York Times *
Yan is a keen observer of the cruel and the magical, and has a fine sense of the permeable line between high hilarity and Kafkan nightmare. * Waterbridge Review *
Masterful * Lancashire Evening Post *
Masterful novel… Spare, beautifully understated prose… – Pam Norfolk * UK Regional Press Syndication *
About The Author
Geling Yan
Geling Yan is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists and screenwriters in the Chinese language today and a well-established writer in English. Born in Shanghai in 1959, she served with the People’s Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution, starting aged 12 as a dancer in an entertainment troupe. She published her first novel in 1986 and since then has written over 20 books and won over 30 awards. Her works have been translated into twelve languages, several have been adapted for screen, the latest being The Flowers of War, which was filmed by Zhang Yimou and stars Christian Bale. Geling Yan currently divides her time between Berlin and China.
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