{"product_id":"the-incarnations-betrayal-and-intrigue-in-china-lived-again-and-again-by-a-beijing-taxi-driver-across-a-thousand-years","title":"Susan Barker: The Incarnations [2015] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Kirkus Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Reads as China's \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e. Utterly remarkable' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopically imaginative novel' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Mesmerising storytelling' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI dream of us across the centuries ...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeijing\u003c\/b\u003e, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city's congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. He is being warned: Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther letters follow, taking Wang back in time: to a spirit-bride in the Tang Dynasty; to young slaves during the Mongol invasion; to concubines plotting to kill the emperor; to a kidnapping in the Opium War; and to Red Guards during the Cultural revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd with each letter, Wang feels the watcher in the shadows growing closer ...\u003cbr\u003e__________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR SUSAN BARKER\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[A] kaleidoscopically imaginative novel...Barker stitches together an unnervingly perceptive portrait of China and of the enduring influence that its past has on the present' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal, this is the most extraordinary work of imagination you'll read all year'\u003cb\u003e ADAM JOHNSON, Winner of the PULITZER Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Erudite, intriguing and compulsively readable, Susan Barker, a born story-teller, has written one of the most remarkable novels of recent years' \u003cb\u003eJOHN BOYNE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant, mind-expanding, and wildly original novel' \u003cb\u003eCHRIS CLEAVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A hallucinatory ride. Highly recommend'\u003cb\u003e ANNA HOPE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barker, Susan","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48149703491923,"sku":"XG81784160005","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52727273652563,"sku":"XV81784160005","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":52727273685331,"sku":"9781784160005","price":18.56,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/barker-susan-susan-barker-the-incarnations-2015-paperback-1214862868.jpg?v=1767730989","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-incarnations-betrayal-and-intrigue-in-china-lived-again-and-again-by-a-beijing-taxi-driver-across-a-thousand-years","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}