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Years of Red Dust

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Language
  
English

Author
  
Qiu Xiaolong

Page count
  
240

ISBN
  
9781429942614

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Pages
  
240

Copyright date
  
2010

Genre
  
Short story

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Published
  
French translation in 2008 English book in 2010

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Years of Red Dust is a collection of short stories by Qiu Xiaolong. The book in English was published in 2010; but the stories were originally published in Le Monde and a book in French was published in 2008.

Contents

It is a story about China between 1949 and 2005, told through the Red Dust neighbourhood, in Shanghai, according to the author.

Plot

Several of the stories within the novel, begin with excerpts (non-fiction) from wall newspapers of China's past.

The setting is in Shanghai where "the flow of the green slime of corruption, pollution and greed (for money), races with the flow of blood and champagne", according to Aftenposten.

Sales

The book has been on best-seller lists in France and Germany.

Translations

The book has been translated to other languages, including:

  • French: Cité de la poussière rouge, translated from English by Fanchita Gonzalez Batlle, éditions Liana Levi, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-86746-665-6).
  • German: Das Tor zur Roten Gasse.
  • Norwegian: År i rødt støv (2011).
  • References

    Years of Red Dust Wikipedia