by François Cheng · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253151012
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«Le Dit de Tianyi» is the novel by François Cheng, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (442 pages, in French).
During a trip to China, the narrator receives the confessions of the painter Tianyi, whom he had met. Tianyi recalls traditional and turbulent China before the war, his time in the West in the fifties, and his return to the country in the midst of revolution to find Yumei and Haolang, two loved ones bound by a dramatic story.
The work was published in 1998 and received the Prix Femina that year. This edition appeared in 2002; the cover presents François Cheng as a member of the Académie française.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Chinese history and the crossing of cultures between East and West.
François Cheng is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet, and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
