Alternative History

›Gezeiten‹, der erste Roman von Bei Dao, einem der meistbeachteten Autoren Chinas, spiegelt die verzweifelte scenario junger Intellektueller in der verworrenen finish- und Auflösungsphase der Kulturrevolution.
Die schwierige Liebesgeschichte zwischen einer jungen Frau und einem aus Peking in ein ödes Provinznest strafversetzten Studenten zeigt den Verlust an Hoffnung und Vertrauen, den eine ganze new release erlitten hat.
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"Like turning a perfectly textured and wonderfully glazed vessel round and round, the chronology of Jennifer Mackenzie's Borobudur, is improved whereas eluding linearity. Her legend of Gunavarman, Javanese Buddhism's virtually legendary priest-architect, reminds one in all Hesse's Siddhartha with the parallel truth she creates for the book's protagonists. Borobudur is a memorable invention, completely current because it succors either heritage and mind's eye. The poem's tropical atmospheres and correspondingly spiced language, the splendid aspect and layers of tale, girdle the poem because it, in its outstanding stead, encircles the monument which era nearly forgot." ~ Kris Hemensley

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jennifer Mackenzie has a long-standing curiosity in Asia, traveling to India, Indonesia, Cambodia and China. A fascination with outdated Asia resulted in the Borobudur venture, and to a Master's measure at the ancient fiction of Pramoedya Ananta Toer. She lived and labored in China for a number of years, and is at present engaged on an ongoing literary undertaking set in China and Australia. She has kids and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Wien – Westbahnhof: Ein Taxichauffeur nimmt einen Fahrgast aus dem Pariser Spätzug auf, den er ins inn Bristol bringen soll. Unterwegs bekommt er plötzlich auf seine Fragen keine Antwort mehr und stellt fest, daß er einen Toten durch die nächtliche Stadt fährt. Er hat keine Schüsse gehört, niemanden gesehen. Wird die Polizei ihm glauben, wenn er den Unbekannten auf dem Revier abliefert? Werden sie ihn nicht festnehmen? was once wird aus dem Chauffeur, diesem anständigen Menschen, der Ruf und Existenz in Frage gestellt sieht und der von dem grausigen Ereignis getroffen worden ist wie von einem Steinwurf?
Lernet-Holenia verstrickt den Leser in einen Wirbel wilder Begebenheiten, in ein tolles Gewebe von Abenteuern, geknüpft von einer ironischen und geistreichen Phantasie.
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