About the Book: Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of
the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015
Man Booker International Prize. 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
Kingdoms ancient cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand Chinas
past and present?or the murky waters where the