Wei, Su
The Invisible Valley
- ISBN 13:
- 9781618731456
- author:
- Wei, Su
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Small Beer Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 21.34 x 13.72 x 2.54 centimetres
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Lu Beiping, one of 20 million young adults forcibly relocated by the Chinese government, finds himself in a desperate situation. Bored and exhausted, he is married off to the foreman's long-dead daughter so that her soul may rest. Sent to cattle duty on Mudkettle Mountain, Lu meets an outcast polyamorous family who lead him into a forbidden religious tradition. Their idiosyncratic faith, which claims to placate the serpent-demon sleeping in the belly of the mountains, becomes a source of comfort and solace for Lu. However, their way of life is threatened when the village authorities discover his involvement with the woodcutters. A typhoon rips through the valley, and deep in the jungle, a giant serpent may be stirring. This lyrical fable explores the shapes into which human affection can be pressed in extreme circumstances, and the relationships between humans and the natural world, as well as the self and the other.
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