My Enemy's Cherry Tree

Wang Ting-Kuo

ISBN 10: 1846276586 / ISBN 13: 9781846276583

Editore: Granta Books, GB, 2019

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A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small café in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return.Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who holds the small town in his sway. In the few moments the two men spend together, Luo is driven mad.So begins a story of desire and betrayal set against the tumultuous first decade of Taiwan's 21st Century. The recipient of all three of Taiwan's major literary prizes, My Enemy's Cherry Tree is a story of love, money and coercion, in which two men who have sought to acquire something unattainable, instead lose something irreplaceable.

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• Titolo: My Enemy's Cherry Tree
• Editore: Granta Books, GB
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1846276586
• ISBN 13: 9781846276583
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 262 grammi

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A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small café in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return.Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who holds the small town in his sway. In the few moments the two men spend together, Luo is driven mad.So begins a story of desire and betrayal set against the tumultuous first decade of Taiwan's 21st Century. The recipient of all three of Taiwan's major literary prizes, My Enemy's Cherry Tree is a story of love, money and coercion, in which two men who have sought to acquire something unattainable, instead lose something irreplaceable.

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Praise for My Enemy's Cherry Tree:

'A glimmering Taiwanese tale of love and sorrow... quietly devastating... the murky present and clear past are tied together by the simple loveliness of Ting-Kuo's prose... sometimes it s in the gaps, the glimmering ellipses, that the best story lies' Daily Telegraph

'Beautifully ruminates on lost love and desire' London Magazine

'A masterpiece. . . an understated, heartrending tale of sadness - one whose muted grief stretches out like an expanse of sea and finds neither resolution nor release'-- --Strait Times