The Imagined Land
β Scribed by Eduardo Berti
- Book ID
- 111934410
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 256 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781941920626
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
With sensuous imagery and musical cadence, Berti conjures up a star-crossed love story for a brother and sister in pre-revolutionary China. Their hearts' desires collide with their parents' strictness, superstitions, the delicate balance between modernity and tradition, and with the indelible memory of their grandmother, who visits the young girl in her dreams from the "imagined country" of her death.
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