Volume 6: Short Novels - The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo is divided into ten volumes, each published in both paperback and hardcover collector's editions. Volume 6 and Volume 7 are essays; Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5 are long novels and plays; Volume 6 and Volume 7 are short novels; Volume 8 is short stories; Volume 9 is correspondence; and Volume 10 is unfinished works. This book is Volume 6. Wang Xiaobo is currently China's most creative writer, hailed as China's Joyce and Kafka. He is also the only mainland Chinese writer to have won the prestigious "United Daily News Literature Award for Short Fiction" twice. His literary creations are unique, rich in imagination and fantasy yet grounded in rationality. His words are transparent yet obscure, sincere yet cunning. The labyrinthine text reminds one of Borges—he circles like a taxi driver, more taxi-driver-like than a taxi driver. In short, you can read infinite possibilities or impossibilities, infinite certainty or uncertainty. The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo is divided into ten volumes, collecting the important works of Wang Xiaobo during his lifetime, with a significant portion newly organized as sparks of thought. The entire set is divided into essays, long novels, short novels, short stories, correspondence, and unfinished works, totaling approximately 2 million words. This book is Volume 6, featuring five short novels originally included in The Golden Age: The Golden Age, At Thirty, The Flow of Time, Love in a Revolutionary Age, and My Yin and Yang.