50 Books to Read If You're a Hopeless Romantic by Eric Karl Anderson

Author:Eric Karl Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2022-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Wang is a humble cab driver in Beijing. He receives strange letters from an anonymous writer who informs him that they have known each other in several past lives. Their different incarnations are enumerated along with their shared dramatic experiences. Interspersed with these letters is an account of Wang’s own troubled past and strained circumstances. He’s desperate to discover who is sending these letters to him, and his present life is thrown into disorder. But he also gradually considers the possibility that this is an entangled love affair which has lasted for centuries. Tales of Wang’s past lives include his experiences as a eunuch in an imperial palace in 632 CE; a crafty scarred slave named Tiger in 1213; a virginal concubine in 1542; a British cultural explorer in 1836; and a loyal Maoist of the School of Revolutionary Girls in 1966.

As well as providing snapshots of pivotal moments from China’s immense history, this story allows the author to play with notions of gender, sexuality and race. A single character can flip between being a young girl in one story to a middle-aged man in another. By giving us the tales of two characters that are reincarnated continuously throughout history, Barker creates an epically romantic tale.

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