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Elephant Herd eBook

A Novel

de Guixing Zhang
idioma: inglês
Editor: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, Janeiro de 2025 ‧
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Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing, whose distinctive style evokes the jungles of Southeast Asia. It is an atmospheric account of a Malaysian Chinese young man’s journey upriver deep into the Sarawak rainforest of northwest Borneo in search of his uncle, the leader of a Communist guerilla group. Venturing through the jungle, the protagonist—largely referred to only as "the boy"—enters a verdant and vertiginous world of wild creatures and political peril.

Jumping backward and forward in time, Elephant Herd intermingles fractured, fragmentary episodes with lush, immersive descriptions of the natural world. Its main narrative begins in the 1970s and proceeds to explore the repercussions of Sarawak’s midcentury Communist insurgency. Focusing on the boy, his extended family, and his Indigenous classmate and travel companion, Zhang examines the complex relations among ethnic Chinese, local Malays, and Indigenous peoples. The novel teems with crocodiles, turtles, elephants, and countless other species of flora and fauna; as the boy’s journey progresses, the human and nonhuman worlds begin to blur together and even camouflage themselves as each other. Elegantly translated by Carlos Rojas, Elephant Herd is a hypnotic and compelling work by a major Sinophone writer.

Elephant Herd

A Novel

de Guixing Zhang

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780231559034
Editor: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Data de Lançamento: Janeiro de 2025
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade:
Coleção: Modern Chinese Literature From Taiwan
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Literatura > Ficção
eBooks em Inglês > Outros
EAN: 9780231559034
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