Ashiq al-Sin عاشق الصين

Arabic
By: Ian Buruma
Softcover
455 pp
Dar al Kitab al Arabi, 2011
17 x 24 cm
9789953279350
Historical Fiction - Literature - Drama

Translated to Arabic, "The China Lover" the 2008 novel by British-Dutch writer and academic Ian Buruma. A transfixing portrait of a woman and a nation eagerly burying the past to transform the future...Ian Buruma uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens through which to understand the lure of erotic fantasies in the conquest of nations. The China Lover reveals the catastrophic results when theater and politics blend in a lethal manner.