Linda Jaivin is an Australian writer, the author of eleven books (seven novels and four books of non-fiction including the Quarterly Essay Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World), and a film translator (from Chinese). Her most recent books are The Empress Lover, published in April 2014 and the non-fiction Beijing, about the city and its history, published in 2014 as well. She is also the co-editor of the China Story Yearbook, published by the Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. Linda Jaivin lives in Sydney and is working on several new projects, including a new novel.
10 Электронные книги Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin: Eat Me
Julia is a photographer; Chantal edits a fashion magazine; Helen is an academic, and Philippa is writing a novel. The best of friends, they meet at trendy cafes and restaurants to eye the passing tal …
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Jaivin Linda Jaivin: Beijing
Reaktion’s new City Scopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city’s beginnings to the present day. Written by authors with unique and intim …
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Linda Jaivin: Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in …
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Linda Jaivin: The Shortest History of China
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese history …
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Linda Jaivin: The Shortest History of China
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.Chinese history …
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Linda Jaivin: Infernal Optimist
Capturing the voice of an Australia you haven’t heard in fiction before … Meet Zeke togan, a small-time crim in big-time trouble. A quintessential Australian larrikin — whose biggest problem is tha …
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Linda Jaivin: Most Immoral Woman
He was our man in Peking. She was … everybody’s. The ravishing new novel from the author of the bestselling EAT ME. ‘A most engaging, clever and memorable romp’ Sydney Morning Herald He was our man …
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Linda Jaivin: Empress Lover
A witty, playful, intriguing and ultimately very moving novel of identity and loss. ‘Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine…’ Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund …
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Linda Jaivin: The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower — A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)
Journey across epic China—through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. As we enter the …
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Linda Jaivin: Bombard the Headquarters!
In 1966, with the words ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he died ten years …
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