Research Catalog

Title

Stories of the Sahara / Sanmao ; translated from the Chinese by Mike Fu ; with an introduction by Sharlene Teo.

Author

Sanmao

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fu, Mike
• Teo, Sharlene

Description

xii, 395 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s, to the Sahara. Stories of the Sahara invites us into Sanmao's extraordinary life in the desert: her experiences of love and loss, freedom and peril, all told with a voice as spirited as it is timeless. At a period when China was beginning to look beyond its borders, Sanmao fired the imagination of millions and inspired a new generation. With an introduction by Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti, this is an essential collection from one of the twentieth century's most iconic figures.

Uniform Title

Sahala sui yue. English

Alternative Title

Sahala sui yue.

Subject

• Sanmao > Travel > Sahara
• Sanmao
• Travel
• Sahara > Description and travel
• Sahara

Note

• First published by Crown Publishing Company in Taiwan in 1976.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Chinese.

Contents

A Knife on a Desert Night -- A Desert Diner -- The Marriage Chronicles -- Apothecary -- Child Bride -- Night in the Wasteland -- The Desert Bathing Spectacle -- Looking for Love -- Nice Neighbours -- Dilettante Fishermen -- Seed of Death -- A Ladder -- Hearth and Home -- My Great Mother-in-Law -- Stealing Souls -- Sergeant Salva -- Hitchhikers -- The Mute Slave -- Crying Camels -- Lonesome Land.

Call Number

JFE 21-330

ISBN

• 9781408881873
• 140888187X
• 9781408881880
• 1408881888

LCCN

2019452906

OCLC

1101770310

Author

Sanmao, author.

Title

Stories of the Sahara / Sanmao ; translated from the Chinese by Mike Fu ; with an introduction by Sharlene Teo.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from the Chinese.

Added Author

Fu, Mike, translator.

Teo, Sharlene, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-330