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The Incarnations

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I dream of us across the centuries. I dream we stagger through the Gobi, the Mongols driving us forth with whips. I dream of sixteen concubines, plotting to murder the sadistic Emperor Jiajing. I dream of the Sorceress Wu lowering the blade, her cheeks splattered with your blood. I dream of you as a teenage Red Guard, rampaging through the streets of Beijing. I am your soulmate, Driver Wang and now I dream of you. You don’t know it yet, but soon I will make you dream of me …

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‘Mesmerising storytelling’ NEW YORK TIMES
A New York Time Notable book of the year
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KIRKUS REVIEW PRIZE

Beijing, 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. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.

Other 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.

And with each letter, Wang feels the watcher in the shadows growing closer ?
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PRAISE FOR SUSAN BARKER:

‘[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’ The New Yorker

‘A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal, this is the most extraordinary work of imagination you’ll read all year’ ADAM JOHNSON, Winner of the PULITZER Prize for Fiction

‘An extraordinary novel. Erudite, intriguing and compulsively readable, Susan Barker, a born story-teller, has written one of the most remarkable novels of recent years’ JOHN BOYNE

‘A brilliant, mind-expanding, and wildly original novel’ CHRIS CLEAVE

‘What a ferociously talented writer Susan Barker is. The Incarnations is a hallucinatory ride. Highly recommend’ ANNA HOPE

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Weight 0.325 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.7 × 2.9 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

476

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K