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KRASZNAHORKAI LÁSZLÓ DESTRUCTION AND SORROW BEN...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE!   The only nonfiction work by Krasznahorkai available in English  a
bracing account of traveling through China at the turn of the 21st century Known for his
brilliantly dark fictional visions  László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European
writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here  he
brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its
emergence as a global power  China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist
strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom's ancient
cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China's past and present--or the murky
waters where the two meet? Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both a travel memoir
and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary
writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia and the legacies of its
interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society. Rendered in English by award-winning
translator Ottilie Mulzet  Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is an important work 
marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist. Praise for Krasznahorkai  >
"Krasznahorkai delights in unorthodox description  no object is too insignificant for his
worrying gaze. . . . He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly
irresolvable. They are haunting  pleasantly weird  and ultimately  bigger than the worlds they
inhabit."-- New York Times "Krasznahorkai is an expert with the complexity of human obsessions.
Each of his books feel like an event  a revelation."-- Daily Beast

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