{"product_id":"9781923099005","title":"All the Rivers Run South","description":"Author: Ouyang Yu\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923099005\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Nov 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 280\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is supposedly the fictional biography of a street storyteller by the name of Ah Sin active during the gold-digging days of the 1850s and 1860s in Victoria, Australia, told by Zhang Baohui, a mainland Chinese student working on a PhD thesis in creative writing, at Laurendal University, under the supervision of Professor Stacey Ahsin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Baohui delves deeper into Australia\u0026amp;#x27;s past, he weaves the story of Ah Sin with his own by turning the academically required exegesis into a hodgepodge of his thought bursts, diary entries, carefully reported memory lapses, mini-historical stories, fragmentary pieces of poetry, philosophical musings on history and fiction, and his own story of illness, sexual ambiguities, and love or impossibility of love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\"The easiest way to approach history is through figures\", Ouyang Yu writes. His new novel offers many: figures of speech, figures of history, figures real and imagined and all of that which  silent, evasive, buried  cannot be figured: . A glorious holiday in hell, All the Rivers Ran South asks tough questions about language, accommodation, and what happens when a community's cultures receive the kind of love its people never do.'  Declan Fry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867065831582,"sku":"ADS-9781923099005","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923099005.jpg?v=1779429157","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923099005","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}