{"product_id":"shaanxi-opera","title":"Shaanxi Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of China’s most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams—all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing China.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn post–Cultural Revolution China, in the fading village of Freshwind, the fates of two households are shifting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bais, once the most powerful family in the region, have fallen from status. Their beautiful daughter, Snow Bai, an embodiment of tradition, pursues a career in a vanishing art form. The Xias, enthusiastic members of the Party, are on the rise. Their favorite son, Wind Xia, is a citified politician whose marriage to Snow Bai could unite the two families. But in a village casting about for a new road to prosperity, fortunes can change. Watching it all unfold is a local outcast named Spark. The inveterate busybody is given to strange visions and flights of fancy, and is motivated by the only constant in Freshwind: his mad love for Snow Bai.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpansive, funny, monumental, and deeply poignant, Jia Pingwa’s \u003ci\u003eThe Shaanxi Opera\u003c\/i\u003e is a keenly observant portrait of China in an era of globalization, societal upheaval, and the growing influence of popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308437479806,"sku":"NW9781542016872","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781542016872.jpg?v=1778578717","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/shaanxi-opera","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}