Name: Beijing: A Novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 3958552
Price: 39.94 USD
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Author: Philip Gambone
ISBN: 9780299184902

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Wisconsin Press

Autor

Philip Gambone

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

322

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

1.25

ISBN

0299184900

ISBN13

9780299184902

N° edición

Categorías

Relativo al colectivo gay
Ficción: general y literaria

Beijing: A Novel (en Inglés)

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Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city—both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture. David chronicles his adventures in China as he wrestles with cultural dislocation, loneliness, and sexual and spiritual longing. After a series of both comic and poignant encounters with gay Chinese men, he meets Bosheng, a handsome young artist. Though the attraction is strong, a difficult courtship ensues, during which Bosheng returns to his ancestral village to marry the girl his parents have chosen for him. Eventually, and quite unexpectedly, David and Bosheng reconnect and share an idyllic spring together. As the year ends, David must decide whether to say goodbye or face the uncertainties of a long-distance relationship. Gambone’s novel is peopled with a host of wonderfully memorable characters: Owen, David’s forthright best friend back home; Auntie Chen, the clinic’s office mom, who wants to fix David up with a girlfriend; Stewart, David’s Beijing roommate, a graduate student doing research on Peking opera; Jiantao and Guoyang, two lovers who lecture David on the fleeting quality of American romance; and Tyson, the Australian doctor with a Chinese girlfriend, who hopes to teach David that love doesn’t need any explanations or justifications.