Opower. An extraordinary and chilling dramatisation of the dark side of nation-building, it is also a deft exploration of the failings of human nature.
Su Tong’s Xie Empire is a dreamlike, beautiful.brutal place [and] his prose is full of gorgeous images.Sunday Times Powerful and elegant... The world he so viwdly depicts has the timelessness of a classical Chinese court painting, and at least as much cruelty as a traditional romance. Readers brought up on the Chinese historical novels of Pearl Buck or the quasi-historical sagas of Mary Renault will revel in the serpentine atmosphere and Voluptuous Prose.Independent. |
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