China Fiction

In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her brother and the mother she loves and trusts. All Xiaodeng remembers of the fateful morning is betrayal.

En el reino de Dàxī, el té guarda una poderosa magia y una antigua sabiduría. Por eso los shénnóng-shī, maestros en el arte del té, son personas con años de entrenamiento que gozan de un gran prestigio entre las esferas más altas de la sociedad. Cuando Ning se entera de la competencia para encontrar al nuevo mejor shénnóng-shī del reino, viaja a la ciudad imperial para participar. El ganador recibirá un favor de la princesa Ying-Zhen y con ello Ning tendría la oportunidad de salvar la vida de su hermana.

È tempo di rivolte e rivoluzioni, conflitti e intrighi. New Crobuzon sta cadendo a pezzi. Da un lato la guerra contro l'arcana, oscura città-stato di Tesh, dall'altro i ribelli che si aggirano per le strade portando la metropoli sull'orlo della rovina. Nel mezzo dei disordini, una misteriosa figura mascherata incita a una nuova forma di ribellione, mentre tradimenti e violenze si manifestano in luoghi inconsueti.

Der letzte Tag der Menschheit ist angebrochen. Eine gewaltige Strahlenwolke, ausgelöst durch eine Sternexplosion acht Jahre zuvor, wird schon bald alle Menschen über dreizehn Jahren töten. Seit acht Jahren läuft der Countdown, und seitdem werden die Kinder und Jugendlichen der Welt auf eine Zukunft allein vorbereitet. Einige von ihnen jedoch wollen gar nicht so weitermachen wie zuvor. Sie träumen von einer neuen, einer besseren Zukunft für sich und ihren Planeten. Dies ist ihre Geschichte.

“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me *Shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize* The...

Here is the compelling story of six American families and their desperate attempt to keep their newly adopted Chinese children. Before leaving China, authorities demand the infants be returned without offering the slightest explanation. What if three of the families refuse? What if they risk everything and attempt a renegade run through China with the babies? Featuring a pulse-pounding narration by George Guidall, China Run will keep listeners on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

“A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea....highly entertaining." —The Washington Post A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance...

Take a journey into the magical, creative world of Doodles Lanhorn, a 14-year-old boy gifted with exceptional Wizartry powers, where the art of drawing makes something come to life just with the whirl of his hand! In this latest adventure, Doodles takes an action-packed trip to China to compete in the annual Wizartry Competition, determined to win a seat on the Wizartry Council even though he is the youngest contestant, so he could change the realm for the better.

A disturbingly realistic vision of war several decades into the future. Invasion: China is as ambitious as it is powerful. Using advanced technologies in military science, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, air, and space for global supremacy. This controversial tale will keep you sleepless at night as America challenges the new colossus in the East: Greater China and her Pan-Asian allies. Hard-hitting. Vast in scope. And all too possibly real.

Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life? Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.

Cindy Mayfield is a OSI (Office of Special Investigations) Special Agent. She joined the OSI to learn more about the government lie called MK-Ultra, a lie she learned about as a Correctional Officer at California Medical Facility. This leads her on the trail of virus and vaccine recipes, and ultimately, to China. Her OSI controller stumbles onto 2020 Presidential Ballots, printed in Guangdong, China. Agent Mayfield discovers a far bigger government lie than MK-Ultra - the COVID virus is tied to a coup d’état of the Presidential Election.

Brushstrokes in Time, written by Sylvia Vetta, is a memoir of fictional Chinese artist, Little Winter, written for her American daughter. It takes the story of Communist China beyond the death of Mao and for the first time in fiction shows the birth of the radical art movement, The Stars, in 1979. Her haunting love story connects us to this time of hope for freedom of expression in China, and to a man frustrated by "being kept in small shoes".

Die drei Königreiche befinden sich in einem tödlichen Krieg. Für Meilin die Chance, einer Zwangsehe zu entgehen. Als Junge verkleidet, kämpft sie fortan in der Armee. Ihr Ehrgeiz auf dem Schlachtfeld wird bald von Liu entdeckt, dem Prinzen der Armee, der sie persönlich trainiert.

Weit über 3 Millionen verkaufte Romane weltweit - Cixin Liu hat der chinesischen Science-Fiction die Tür zur westlichen Welt geöffnet. An seinem vierzehnten Geburtstag muss der junge Chen miterleben, wie seine Eltern vor seinen Augen getötet werden. Ein mehrere tausend Grad heißer Feuerball fährt in das alte Haus und verwandelt alles in Asche - ein Kugelblitz. Ab diesem Ereignis hat Chen nur noch ein Ziel im Leben: Er will diesem rätselhaften Naturphänomen auf den Grund gehen und es erforschen.

"Kavenna is a diligent scholar of her form, melding a massively complex plot à la Thomas Pynchon and the wicked social satire of Evelyn Waugh with a healthy dose of Gogol's absurdist dysphoria thrown in for good measure." Kirkus (starred review) A blistering, satirical novel about life under a...

Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors of postwar Shanghai....

“Expands the future of the immigrant novel.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review “Spectacular and emotionally polyphonic…That Jin has managed to craft such an intimate, emotionally complex story is an awesome achievement. That she managed to do it in her debut novel, doubly so.”...

An NPR Best Book of the Year A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt...

From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his...

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some...