Distant Sunflower Fields

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR012003643

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: 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.