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Kingdom of Characters is the third book authored by Jing Tsu, a professor of comparative literature and East Asian languages and literature at Yale University. [1] Her previous two books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, also covered Chinese linguistic history.
Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction. [1] LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula Le Guin.
The Broken Kingdoms is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the second book of her The Inheritance Trilogy. [1] It takes place ten years after the events of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and centers around a young woman named Oree Shoth, who lives in the World Tree-shrouded, godling-inhabited city of Shadow.
Her books are snapped up by the nation’s largest publishing houses, with Hollywood sniffing around for movie rights. This Kansas writer is building quite a ‘Kingdom’: Seven novels in five ...
A saving grace of excessive novels is that a few missteps hardly matter; The Broom of the System succeeds as a manic, human, flawed extravaganza. In the same newspaper, Michiko Kakutani wrote a somewhat unfavorable review, calling it "an unwieldy, uneven work - by turns, hilarious and stultifying, daring and derivative".
The Washington Post named it "a book of blazing brilliance". [3] USA Today called it "stealthily devastating" [4] while Vox gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars. [5] The novel also received positive reviews from The New York Times Book Review, [6] The New Yorker, [7] The Boston Globe, [8] The Guardian, [9] Chicago Review of Books, [10] and The New ...
The Kingdom of Copper is an American science fiction and fantasy novel written by S. A. Chakraborty. It is the Second of The Daevabad Trilogy , the sequel to The City of Brass and is followed by The Empire of Gold in 2020.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. It depicts people competing over how new technology is being used at Walt Disney World , in a post-scarcity world with an economy based on reputation .