- Chinoiserie., Fiction, china, humor
A fictional work of a China that never was. Chinoiserie.
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Cool, nostalgic, plot-driven and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Barry Hughart
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Lulu Press, Inc., Century, Corgi
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345321381
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First sentence
“I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.”
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