All the rivers run south
Ouyang, Yu, 1955-2023
Book
This is supposedly the fictional biography of a street storyteller by the name of Ah Sin, active during the gold-digging days of the 1850s and 1860s in Victoria, Australia, told by Zhang Baohui, a mainland Chinese student working on a PhD thesis in creative writing. As Baohui delves deeper into Australia's past, he weaves the story of Ah Sin with his own by turning the academically required exegesis into a hodgepodge of his thought bursts, diary entries, carefully reported memory lapses, mini-historical stories, fragmentary pieces of poetry, philosophical musings on history and fiction, and his own story of illness, sexual ambiguities, and love or impossibility of love.
Main title:
All the rivers run south / Ouyang Yu.
Author:
Ouyang, Yu, 1955-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Waratah, NSW : Puncher and Wattmann, 2023.©2023.
Collation:
414 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781923099005 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1972521