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Language English Page count 240 ISBN 9781429942614 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Pages 240 Copyright date 2010 Genre Short story | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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:
References
Years of Red Dust Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA