2009, ISBN: 1885030428

[EAN: 9781885030429], Nouveau livre, [SC: 64.73], [PU: Kaya Press, New York], Paperback. After 40 years in Australia, Antonio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The… Plus…

[EAN: 9781885030429], Nouveau livre, [SC: 64.73], [PU: Kaya Press, New York], Paperback. After 40 years in Australia, Antonio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," Antonio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his parents' own migration, Antonio heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A "fictional autobiography," "Shanghai Dancing" is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W.G. Sebald. "The Age" has described the book as "an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene. told in Castro's characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay." The winner of some of Australia's top literary prizes, "Shanghai Dancing" has been praised by its judges as "a work of major significance that] challenges our expectations of storytelling. It is impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience." "Shanghai Dancing" marks the U.S. debut of a major Australian literary figure. Shanghai Dancing marks the U.S. debut of the major Australian literary figure, Brian Castro. A "fictional autobiography," Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation by a writer who has been compared to W.G. Sebald. The book follows narrator Antonio Castro from Australia to his Hong Kong birthplace. The trip occasions an exploration of family myths and secrets that encompass Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese and English forebears and that extends from religious persecution in the Inquisition to the frenzied decadence that preceded Japan's invasion of Shanghai to the 1999 handover of Hong Kong to contemporary Australia. One of Castro's forefathers is burned at the stake; another smuggles the bones of Christian martyrs from Japan. His grandparents include a red-haired, green-eyed Jewess, a Chinese surgeon with a fetish for bound feet, and a Lilipudlian missionary. In Shanghai Dancing, Castro employs a sophisticated, sensual prose as well as maps, photographs, documents and letters to explore the evanescence of a shifting, polyglot world. Awarded some of Australia's most prestigious literary prizes, the book has been called, "impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability., Books<

ISBN: 9781885030429

After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls Shanghai Dancing, António seeks to under… Plus…

After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls Shanghai Dancing, António seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his parents' own migration, António heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A fictional autobiography, Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W.G. Sebald. The Age has described the book as an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene... told in Castro's characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay. The winner of some of Australia's top literary prizes, Shanghai Dancing has been praised by its judges as a work of major significance [that] challenges our expectations of storytelling... It is impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience. Shanghai Dancing marks the U.S. debut of a major Australian literary figure. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, Kaya Production Core >1<

ISBN: 9781885030429

After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," António seeks to understand the so… Plus…

After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," António seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family''s wanderings. Reversing his parents'' own migration, António heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A "fictional autobiography," Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W.G. Sebald. The Age has described the book as "an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene... told in Castro''s characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay." The winner of some of Australia''s top literary prizes, Shanghai Dancing has been praised by its judges as "a work of major significance [that] challenges our expectations of storytelling... It is impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience." Shanghai Dancing marks the U.S. debut of a major Australian literary figure. Books > Fiction List_Books<

2003, ISBN: 9781885030429

Paperback, [PU: Kaya Production,U.S.], Originally published: Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo Pub., 2003., Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, C… Plus…

Paperback, [PU: Kaya Production,U.S.], Originally published: Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo Pub., 2003., Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Contemporary Fiction<

2003, ISBN: 9781885030429

Paperback, [PU: Kaya Production,U.S.], Originally published: Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo Pub., 2003., Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers