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Tun-Huang
[Paperback - 2010]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Historical Fiction
Additional Category: Action & Adventure - Ethnic Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781590173626 | Pages: 240
Shipping Weight: .244 | Dimensions: 5.03 x .51 x 7.95 inches

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More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.

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YasushiInoue(井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life — Japan of the early to mid twentieth century — in revealing perspective.1936 Chiba Kameo Prize --- Ruten,流転1950 Akutagawa Prize --- Tōgyu,闘牛1957 Ministry of Education Prize for Literature --- The Roof Tile of Tempyo,天平の甍1959 Mainichi Press Prize --- Tun-huang,敦煌1963 Yomiuri Prize --- Fūtō,風濤(from Wikipedia)

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