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Title page of Book from the Sky, in pseudo-Chinese characters.The characters “天書” do not appear anywhere in the book. A Book from the Sky (simplified Chinese: 天书; traditional Chinese: 天書; pinyin: Tiānshū) is a book produced by Chinese artist Xu Bing in the style of fine editions from the Song and Ming dynasties, but filled entirely with meaningless glyphs designed to resemble ...
Xu Bing's Tianshu ("Book from the Sky") is a large installation featuring precisely laid out rows of books and hanging scrolls with written "Chinese" texts. Even so, this work challenges our very approach to language because of the unique nature of the text written on the paper.
A Ladder to the Sky is a 2018 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne, and his eleventh novel for adults. The plot concerns Maurice Swift, a handsome young writer who schemes, seduces, and plagiarizes his way to literary stardom. The novel received positive reviews from critics, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the 2018 Irish Book Awards ...
The Legend of Sealed Book (Chinese: 天书奇谭; pinyin: Tian Shu Qi Tan) is a Chinese animated feature film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. It is also referred to as Book Which Came from the Sky , Tales about the Heavenly Book and Secrets of the Heavenly Book .
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"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. [2] In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" (most likely after a line from either Milton's Paradise Lost or Shakespeare's Macbeth) [3] in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts.
The book won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2008) [10] and was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Author (2010) [11] and Carnegie Medal (2011). In 2022, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky was listed among 52 books banned by the Alpine School District following the implementation of Utah law H.B. 374 ...
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan (2005) is a book co-authored with Judy A. Bernstein. [1] It is the autobiographical story of brothers Benson Deng and Alephonsion Deng , and their cousin Benjamin Ajak .