{"product_id":"an-empty-room-stories-9780811219228","title":"An Empty Room: Stories","description":"\u003cem\u003eAn Empty Room\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway's \u003cem\u003eIn Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e and the imagistic power of Kawabata's palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin's wandering \"I\" interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribbles notes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. \u003cem\u003eAn Empty Room\u003c\/em\u003e is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811219228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/28\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mu Xin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917042716853,"sku":"9780811219228","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ce2b74e1-b0ce-4d0a-8934-8de2b891ce42.jpg?v=1687276090","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/an-empty-room-stories-9780811219228","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}