Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
Adrift in the Middle Kingdom Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the…
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Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China.Narrated by a Belfast ship's radio operator who travels inland on a gun-runner's mission, desperate to escape the sea. The fantasy ending transforms the novel from travelogue and adventure into existential meditation. He moves through extraordinary settings of opium salons, the house of a Cantonese watch-mender, the siege of Shanghai, the great flood on the western plains, and the discovery of oil by the uncomprehending overlord in the hidden city of Chungking.
But running like a thread of darkness through the story is opium, from poppy head harvesting to death through addiction.This translation by David McKay, winner of the 2018 Vondel Prize, is the first English
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