· Ge Fei is the pen name of Liu Yong. He is best known for his Jiangnan Trilogy, which includes the novels Renmian Taohua (Peach Blossom Beauty), My Dream of the Mountain and River, and Spring Ends in Jiangnan, and for which he received the Mao Dun Literature www.doorway.ru teaches at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Canaan Morse is a translator, poet, and editor based in www.doorway.ru: New York Review Books. · The Invisibility Cloak is a comic tour de force; Kirkus Reviews wrote that it “packs in wit, social commentary, and an emotional depth that will lift the reader’s spirits like few recent English-language books.”. Last month, Ge Fei visited New York, where he appeared in conversation at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. · The following is from Ge Fei’s novel, The Invisibility Cloak, translated from the Chinese by Canaan www.doorway.ru is the pen name of Liu Yong. He is best known for his Jiangnan Trilogy, which includes the novels Renmian Taohua (Peach Blossom Beauty), Spring Ends in Jiangnan, and My Dream of the Mountain and River, and for which he received the Mao Dun Literature www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
The Invisibility Cloak review. The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (tr. Canaan Morse). NYRB Classics. pp., $ We're all familiar with unreliable narrators, those first-person storytellers whose words we are not sure we can trust. In The Invisibility Cloak, Ge Fei takes this to the next level: he gives us an unreliable narrator in an. The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei / translated by Canaan Morse (English)/ pages Rating: 9 / contemp Chinese fiction ***** The Invisibility Cloak did all of this and more because it's light and surreal in its own way. The author has been called a leading writer of "experimental fiction." This is possibly due to the abundance of. The Invisibility Cloak Ge Fei, trans. from the Chinese by Canaan Morse. New York Review Books, $14 trade paper (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS.
A lightly surreal story of misfortune, menace, and high-end stereo equipment in the cutthroat, capitalistic world of modern China. An NYRB Classics Original. The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing—where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods—and he’s a loser. From the cover of The Invisibility Cloak. Ge Fei is one of China’s foremost experimental writers. He started his career in the eighties with “vanguard fiction”—self-reflexive works focusing on history, historical narrative, memory, and myth. Now, for the first time, one of his novels is available in English: ’s The Invisibility Cloak, translated by Canaan Morse. The Invisibility Cloak is an emotionally complex, profoundly reflective journey of a Chinese audiophile’s search for love, meaning, purpose and resolution. It’s remarkable how much Ge Fei packed into these pages.
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