Mu Xin,Toming Jun Liu
An Empty Room, is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingwayâ€™s ,In Our Time, and the imagistic power of Kawabataâ€™s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xinâ€™s wandering â€œIâ€ interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribbles,notes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. ,An Empty Room, is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.
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An Empty Room