Peking Story
By David Kidd
Preface by John Lanchester
By David Kidd
Preface by John Lanchester
By David Kidd
Preface by John Lanchester
By David Kidd
Preface by John Lanchester
Category: Biography & Memoir | Asian World History
Category: Biography & Memoir | Asian World History
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$15.95
Jul 31, 2003 | ISBN 9781590170403
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Apr 27, 2011 | ISBN 9781590174296
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Praise
Kidd’s pieces have been a double illumination. Their intimate domestic lanterns shed light on the dark side of the moon and, exotic and informational interest aside, glow in their own skins, as art. They are simple, graceful, comic, mournful miniatures of an ominous catastrophe, the unprecedently swift death of a uniquely ancient civilization.
— John Updike
In the reader’s eye, Kidd’s story wavers between fact and fiction. It seems too good to be true, like the perfectly woven family sagas common to the great Chinese novels and Victorian fiction. But the climax, the unwritten final chapter of Peking Story, is firmly written in fact: the crumbling of an empire 4000 years old. To achieve this effect in less than 200 pages is astounding.
— Alberto Manguel
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