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All the Rivers Run South
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All the Rivers Run South

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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, at Laurendal University, under the supervision of Professor Stacey Ahsin.

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.

'"The easiest way to approach history is through figures", Ouyang Yu writes. His new novel offers many: figures of speech, figures of history, figures real and imagined and all of that which silent, evasive, buried cannot be figured: . A glorious holiday in hell, All the Rivers Ran South asks tough questions about language, accommodation, and what happens when a community's cultures receive the kind of love its people never do.' Declan Fry

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Puncher and Wattmann
Country
Australia
Date
1 November 2023
Pages
280
ISBN
9781923099005

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, at Laurendal University, under the supervision of Professor Stacey Ahsin.

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.

'"The easiest way to approach history is through figures", Ouyang Yu writes. His new novel offers many: figures of speech, figures of history, figures real and imagined and all of that which silent, evasive, buried cannot be figured: . A glorious holiday in hell, All the Rivers Ran South asks tough questions about language, accommodation, and what happens when a community's cultures receive the kind of love its people never do.' Declan Fry

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Puncher and Wattmann
Country
Australia
Date
1 November 2023
Pages
280
ISBN
9781923099005