Under Fishbone Clouds is a love story, a family saga and a compendium of Chinese history, folklore, myth and culture. The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.
This tale is interwoven with Chinese traditional folktales and stories from ancient Chinese history, while the omnipresent backdrop to Yuying and Jinyi's lives is the sequence of dramatic events of recent Chinese political history, which determines the course of their lives.
Publisher: Birlinn General
ISBN: 9781846971686
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 395 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm
'A powerful and mesmerizing novel, both mythic and intimate ... a great accomplishment of imagination, insight and lyricism' AMY TAN 'Lavishly imagined and skilfully narrated' THE INDEPENDENT
The title comes from the Chinese belief that the light wispy clouds in a blue sky resembling a fish losing its scales show that someone somewhere is giving up something of themselves for love. Jinyi and Yuging are... More
It's my fault I know because the writing is very good. However this novel is just not my 'cup of tea'. The way the story is set out against political history, with folktales and ancient Chinese stories... More
Under Fishbone Clouds, is a beautifully written story, set in China. Narrated by the Kitchen God, is an epic love story, in which he follows a young couple, through their lives to the very end to find how the human... More
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