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Cuando Ge Weilong se presenta inesperadamente en casa de su tía, la señora Liang, para pedirle que la acoja y así poder proseguir con sus estudios en Hong Kong, no se imagina hasta qué punto ese encuentro cambiará su vida. La señora Liang le abrirá las puertas a un ambiente mundano, regido por la suntuosidad y la hipocresía, y Weilong tendrá que decidir si quiere formar parte de él. Así arranca la primera de las dos novelas cortas que contiene este volumen: un retrato espléndido de la decadente China colonial. Dos historias que, como apunta la narradora, se leen en el tiempo que tarda en arder un puñado de incienso. Eileen Chang, nacida en 1920 y considerada la escritora china más importante del siglo xx, supo comprender con gran lucidez el encanto y la complejidad del momento que le tocó vivir. Centrándose en lo aparentemente trivial, Chang plasmó como nadie la convivencia y la contradicción entre los valores tradicionales y la modernidad de los nuevos usos occidentales. Mediante sus conmovedores personajes, exploró temas tan universales como el amor, la pérdida de la inocencia o la rigidez de las relaciones sociales.

When Ge Weilong unexpectedly shows up at her aunt's house, Mrs. Liang, and asks to be taken in so that she can continue her studies in Hong Kong, she can't imagine how much her life will change. Mrs. Liang is the door to a world ruled by sumptuousness and hypocrisy, and Weilong will have to decide if she wants to be part of it. Thus begins the first of the two short novels contained in this volume: a splendid portrait of the decadent colonial China. Two stories that, as the narrator points out, are read in the time it takes for a handful of incense to burn. Eileen Chang, born in 1920 and considered the most important Chinese writer of the 20th century, knew how to portray with great clarity the charm and complexity of the times she had to live. Focusing on what seems apparently trivial, Chang captures the coexistence and contradiction between traditional values and our trouble modernity with a prose that carries on the lyricism of the Chinese classics.


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Eileen Chang (1920-1995) nació en el seno de una familia de clase alta de Shanghai. Su madre fue una mujer moderna educada en Inglaterra; su padre, un adicto al opio de ideas tradicionales. El matrimonio terminó en divorcio y Eileen se quedaría bajo la custodia de su padre, hasta que los maltratos a los que este la sometía la obligaron a irse a vivir con su madre. Tras la invasión japonesa de Hong Kong en 1941, en cuya universidad estudiaba literatura, volvió a la también ocupada Shanghai, donde empezó a publicar en revistas los cuentos y nouvelles que la convirtieron en una famosa escritora. En 1944 se casó con Hu Lancheng, un político que colaboraba con los japoneses y del que se divorciaría tres años después. La llegada de los comunistas al poder la llevaría a EE.UU. en 1955, donde moriría cuarenta años más tarde sin haber vuelto nunca a China.

Eileen Chang (1920-1995) was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Chang studied literature at the University of Hong Kong, but the Japanese attack on the city in 1941 forced her to return to occupied Shanghai, where she was able to publish the stories and essays (collected in two volumes, Romances, 1944, and Written on Water, 1945) that soon made her a literary star. The rise of Communist influence made it increasingly difficult for Chang to continue living in Shanghai; she moved to Hong Kong in 1952, then emigrated to the United States three years later. In spite of the tremendous revival of interest in her work that began in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the 1970s, and that later spread to mainland China, Chang became ever more reclusive as she grew older. Eileen Chang was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment in September 1995.


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  • ISBN-13: 9788417977009
  • Publisher: Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.
  • Publisher Imprint: Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.
  • Height: 109 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 196 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8417977007
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 186 gr

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