By Sheng Keyi
Sheng Keyi used to be born in Hunan province in 1973 and lives in Beijing. dying Fugue is her 6th novel, and the second one to be released in English translation, after Northern ladies (2012). it's a courageous paintings of speculative fiction, a pass among Cloud Atlas and 1984, scathing in its irony, creative in its use of allegory, and acute in its figuring out of the ability of writing. The mind's eye that drives it truly is exuberant and unconstrained.
In a wide sq. within the centre of Beiping, the capital of Dayang, an immense tower of excrement appears to be like at some point, inflicting unease within the inhabitants, and eventually frequent civil unrest. The protest, during which poets play an enormous half, is placed down violently. Haunted by means of the violence, and via his failure to help his female friend Qizi, who's one of many protest leaders, Yuan Mengliu provides up poetry in favour of medication, and the antiseptic atmosphere of the working theatre. yet each year he travels looking for Qizi, and on this type of journeys, stuck in a typhoon, he wakes to discover himself in an ideal society known as Swan Valley. during this utopia, as he quickly discovers, impulse and feeling are thoroughly managed, and each element of existence regulated for the great of the state, with poor results.
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