It appears that the author of K could not be happier that people are talking about the sexually explicit nature of her writing-touted as a Chinese Lady Chatterly's Lover-expressing her pleasure in the lengthy foreword: "So to all you readers who see the erotic in K, I congratulate you on your luck." Hong writes of the illicit love affair between young Julian Bell, son of Vanessa and nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Lin Cheng, then the wife of a college dean who is Julian's employer in China. Grabbing the freedom to blend fact with fiction, Hong imagines, quite vividly, all the angst, guilt, and eroticism involved in the taboo union between a "respectable" Chinese woman and a "foreign devil." Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of China and all its attendant horror, the book conveys a vivid sense of the disparities between sensibilities both emotional and physical. This is a fast and interesting read that will not disappoint those looking for yet another literary work alluding to the Bloomsbury group. Recommended for all libraries. [The daughter of Ling Shuhua, on whom Lin Cheng is based, has brought suit against this book in China, claiming that it defames her mother. Hong Ying currently lives in London.-Ed.]-Michelle Reale, Elkins Park, P.
--Michelle Reale, Elkins Park, PA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Written with the elegant and poetic simplicity that has become Ying's hallmark, her latest novel is based on fact - the passionate affair between Bloomsbury Group favourite Julian Bell and Chinese intellectual Lin Cheng. The erotic tale is set against the backdrop of pre-revolution Peking, a place of sleaze and decadence. Lin teaches Julian the Daoist Art of Love, and finds him an eager pupil. For a time it is possible for them to ignore the disintegration of Chinese culture going on all around, and the distant drumbeats of war. But these elements come to overwhelm their illicit liaison with tragic consequences. Following on from Ying's acclaimed Summer Of Betrayal and her autobiography Daughter Of The River, the book is high on passion and emotion without ever straying over the line of good taste. In Julian Bell (nephew of Virginia Woolf) and Ling Cheng, Ying has drawn a pair of remarkable characters who each have their secrets to protect.(Kirkus UK)
虹影,享譽世界文壇的著名女作傢。1962年生於重慶。曾在北京魯迅文學院、上海復旦大學讀書。代錶作有長篇《K》、《阿難》、《飢餓的女兒》、《一個流浪女的未來》、詩集《魚教會魚歌唱》等。
編著有《海外中國女作傢小說精選》、《以詩論詩》、《中國女作傢異域生活小說選》、《墓床》等。
曾獲“英國華人詩歌一等奬”、中國颱灣《聯閤報》短篇小說奬新詩奬、紐約《特爾菲卡》雜誌“中國最優秀短篇小說奬”,三部長篇被譯成16種文字在歐美、以及以色列、日本等國齣版。長篇自傳體小說《飢餓的女兒》曾獲中國颱灣1997年聯閤報讀書人最佳書奬,被權威媒體評為2000年十大人氣作傢之一。
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