{"product_id":"9780857423115","title":"Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage","description":"\u003cbr\u003eKnown for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdom’s ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand China’s past and present—or the murky waters where the two meet?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDestruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e is both a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia and the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society. Rendered in English by award-winning translator Ottilie Mulzet, \u003ci\u003eDestruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work, marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Krasznahorkai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse.”—Susan Sontag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Krasznahorkai delights in unorthodox description; no object is too insignificant for his worrying gaze. . . . He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable. They are haunting, pleasantly weird, and ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Krasznahorkai is an expert with the complexity of human obsessions. Each of his books feel like an event, a revelation.”—\u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027227197680,"sku":"9780857423115","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857423115_p0.jpg?v=1763841336","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857423115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}