

Peach Blossom Paradise
Author: Ge Fei, Canaan Morse
Narrator: Cindy Kay
Unabridged: 13 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/24/2022
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Ge Fei, Canaan Morse
Narrator: Cindy Kay
Unabridged: 13 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/24/2022
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Ge Fei is the pen name of Liu Yong, who was born in Jiangsu Province in 1964. His scholarly publications include Kafka’s Pendulum, and his fiction includes The Invisibility Cloak; the Jiangnan trilogy, of which Peach Blossom Paradise is the first volume; and the novella Flock of Brown Birds. He was awarded the 2014 Lu Xun Literary Prize and the 2015 Mao Dun Prize for Fiction.
Cindy Kay is a Chinese Thai American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a “cozy best friend.” She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.
Canaan Morse is a translator, poet, and editor. He cofounded the literary quarterly Pathlight: New Chinese Writing and has contributed translations of Chinese prose and poetry to the Kenyon Review, The Baffler, and other journals. In 2016 he translated Ge Fei’s The Invisibility Cloak for NYRB Classics.
This gorgeous peach-colored volume from NYRB classics is a beautiful addition to my Chinese literature collection. A startling and wonderful story centering on an interesting and atypical female protagonist. It concocts a poignant tragedy from the personal life lessons endured by one girl who laments......more
This book feels epic yet intimate in scope. The action moves along at a good clip &, in a way, seems like a soap opera with each chapter having new action or some event. I enjoyed it, the mix of fiction/allegory/history. I think my only (very minor) quibble was that you had a male author writing a f......more
I absolutely loved Ge Fei's "The Invisibility Cloak" and was expecting a lot from this book. Unfortunately, I can't say it fully lived up to my expectations. Yes, it was an interesting read but overall it felt disjointed and some parts seemed pointless. Also, I did not find any of the chuckle-induci......more
"She was no revolutionary, nor was she her father's successor on his hunt for a Peach Blossom Paradise or a young woman staring out at the sea from a wooden house in Yokohama; she was a baby, dozing in a cradle that rocked its way down a rural avenue in the early morning. It was painful for her to t......more
“An engrossing retelling of the Peach Blossom Paradise myth…Rather than offering a well-trodden narrative of romance and revolution, Ge Fei shows that a determined revolutionary isn’t necessarily a shrewd one…[A] stirring, illuminating saga.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An engrossing retelling of the Peach Blossom Paradise myth…Rather than offering a well-trodden narrative of romance and revolution…[A] stirring, illuminating saga.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)