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Marcus Fedder - My Shanghai Neighbours, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

My Shanghai Neighbours

Av Marcus Fedder

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Beskrivning
Marcus Fedder has brought Shanghai to life in a series of interlinked, revealing, and entertaining stories. A central observer is Jing Zhang, the neighbourhood cat, who has a love of philosophy, classical music, and an understanding of the frailties of his human friends. The cat and other narrators memorably relate the daily lives of neighbours in Shanghai's most beautiful quarters. Yet, underneath the elegant surface lurk troubles of the past, lost love, the Cultural Revolution, betrayal, and Covid-19. An enchanting book for all those who wonder what life in present-day Shanghai must be like.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-12-19
  • Mått: 153 x 228 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 161 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 130
  • Förlag: Eyewear Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781913606282
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Marcus spent 18 months in 2018-19 living in the heart of the former French Concession in Shanghai. Originally a banker working in development finance, he now lives in the Swiss mountains, keeping busy with a start-up, finance board position, advisory work and writing. In 2008 he published his first novel, Sarabande and in 2020 German Justice. Marcus studied International Relations at FU Berlin, LSE and Cambridge, and with the proceeds of his art supports the UK Charity Children of the Mekong. www.childrenofthemekong.org

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Gripping tales of electively muted trauma. The potted histories of aging residents in a middle-class Shanghai compound supply different perspectives on protest and the Party, with its ambiguous sexual encounters, and individual ways of reconciling the past and its perpetrators/ perpetration. All along, their narratives are guided by the transcendent observations of Jing Zhang, a self-interested cat castrato whose classical music and intellectual preferences should not be ignored. Evidently drawing on real-life observations in a kind of creative writer's ethnography, these broken tales of ill-fated Shanghai dreams make compelling reading.

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