{"product_id":"destruction-and-sorrow-beneath-the-heavens-reportage","title":"Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe only nonfiction work by Krasznahorkai available in English, a bracing account of traveling through China at the turn of the 21st century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, L√°szl√≥ Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom‚Äôs ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China‚Äôs past and present‚Äîor the murky waters where the two meet?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDestruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia and the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society. Rendered in English by award-winning translator Ottilie Mulzet, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDestruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an important work, marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePraise for Krasznahorkai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‚ÄúThe contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse.‚Äù‚ÄîSusan Sontag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‚ÄúKrasznahorkai delights in unorthodox description; no object is too insignificant for his worrying gaze. . . . He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable. They are haunting, pleasantly weird, and ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit.‚Äù‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‚ÄúKrasznahorkai is an expert with the complexity of human obsessions. Each of his books feel like an event, a revelation.‚Äù‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548253819165,"sku":"9780857425331","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780857425331.jpg?v=1761676917","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/destruction-and-sorrow-beneath-the-heavens-reportage","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}