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Anna Yin in the World's Graveyard Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Anna Yin in the World's Graveyard Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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▷Novel by Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner in Literature
▷Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019); winner of many awards including the Nike Prize and the Booker International Prize
▷The Sumerian goddess of war enters the underworld alone | "Creation" myth; "Wasteland" science fiction; "Cyberpunk" adventure
▷Directly translated from Polish | Comes with a beautiful card
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【Content Introduction】
Anna Yin, goddess of heaven and earth, went to the grave of the world alone. There was the underworld ruled by her twin sister, and all the living would go through seven gates and never return. In order to save Anna Yin, her best friend went to the heaven to seek help from the fathers, and then went to the end of the city and the edge of the desert to find the great mother goddess Ningma.
The fathers established laws that separated the earth from the underground, and made humans live in endless toil and short-lived joy. Humans could not understand everything about life, nor could they obtain happiness. In order to find a new order for the world, Anna Yin and the Great Mother Goddess wanted to open the tomb, shake the foundation of the world, and reconnect the world into a whole.
Finally, Anna Yin returned from the underworld and was resurrected...
“There is only one letter difference between ‘the past’ and ‘the future’. ‘Back and forth – back and forth –’ is like a call.”
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【Recommendations from celebrities and media】
“Her narrative is full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, presenting a life form that transcends boundaries.”
——Reasons for the Nobel Prize in Literature
"With her new way of looking at reality, blending deep realism with fleeting fantasy, her keen observation and her love of myth, she has become one of the most original prose writers of our time. She is a master of shorthand, capturing people who are escaping from their daily lives. She writes what others cannot: 'the aching strangeness of the world.' ... Her style - stirring and thoughtful - flows through her fifteen or so books."
——Nobel Prize in Literature Award Speech
“Tokarczuk has always been committed to the long tradition of Poland’s multicultural and multiethnic culture, raising universal issues that can resonate with readers around the world.”
-- Piotr Wilczek, Polish Ambassador to the United States
"Tokarczuk follows her curiosity and moves forward boldly, never being trapped by boundaries and genres. The characters she writes are alive between the pages, and they speak their truest voices."
——The Paris Review
"As a child, Tokarczuk used her keen intuition about fairy tales and myths to construct her understanding of the connections between everything - people, animals, plants, landscapes, etc. After becoming a writer, she tried to prove through her imagination that her childhood curiosity was not rudely cut off by adult society, but continued in her works."
——The Guardian
"Tokarczuk's work is often about the wanderings and roamings of modern people, in the form of travel, mythological stories and philosophical reflections."
——《Online Report》
"The author obviously believes that everything has a soul, everything has time, and that both living beings and things have their own destiny. ... In her works, you can see the shadows of many Polish literary predecessors, but in terms of overall style, she is no different from anyone else. She is herself. Realism, romanticism, modernism, magic and mystery, fairy tales and myths, constitute a wonderful mixture in her works."
—— Gao Xing, editor-in-chief of World Literature
About the Author
Olga Tokarczuk
Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), an important contemporary European writer and a national treasure of Poland. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for: "Her narrative is full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, presenting a life form that transcends borders." Tokarczuk is also the 15th female writer in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in 1962, Tokarczuk graduated from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warsaw. She entered the literary world in 1989 with her poetry collection City in the Mirror. Her representative works include the novels EE (1995), Eternity and Other Times (1996), House of Day, House of Night (1998), The Last Story (2004), Anna Yoon in the World's Grave (2006), Wandering (2007), Plowing the Bones of the Dead (2009), and The Book of Jacob (2014); the novel collections Wardrobe (1997), Drums of the Drums (2001), and Weird Tales (2018); and the prose Dolls and Pearls (2001).
She is good at integrating folk tales, myths, religious stories and other elements into her works to reflect the history of Poland and human life. In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, she has won the Nike Prize, the authoritative Polish literary award, twice with "The Wanderings" and "The Book of Jacob", and has been nominated for the Nike Prize six times; in 2010, she won the Silver Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Polish Culture; in 2015, she won the German-Polish International Friendship Bridge Award; in 2018, "The Wanderings" won the Man Booker International Prize; in 2019, "The Book of Jacob" won the French Jules Bartaillon Prize, and in the same year, "The Plowing of the Bones of the Dead" was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. The film "The Earth of Bones" adapted from the novel won the Alfred Bauer Award at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
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