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All the Rivers Run South

Ouyang Yu

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English
Puncher and Wattmann
01 November 2023
This is supposedly the fictional biography of a street storyteller by the name of Ah Sin active during the gold-digging days of the 1850s and 1860s in Victoria, Australia, told by Zhang Baohui, a mainland Chinese student working on a PhD thesis in creative writing, at Laurendal University, under the supervision of Professor Stacey Ahsin.

As Baohui delves deeper into Australia's past, he weaves the story of Ah Sin with his own by turning the academically required exegesis into a hodgepodge of his thought bursts, diary entries, carefully reported memory lapses, mini-historical stories, fragmentary pieces of poetry, philosophical musings on history and fiction, and his own story of illness, sexual ambiguities, and love or impossibility of love.

'""The easiest way to approach history is through figures"", Ouyang Yu writes. His new novel offers many: figures of speech, figures of history, figures real and imagined and all of that which

silent, evasive, buried

cannot be figured: . A glorious holiday in hell, All the Rivers Ran South asks tough questions about language, accommodation, and what happens when a community's cultures receive the kind of love its people never do.'

Declan Fry
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Imprint:   Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 148mm, 
ISBN:   9781923099005
ISBN 10:   1923099000
Pages:   280
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ouyang Yu came to Australia in mid-April 1991 and has since published 147 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in English and Chinese languages, including his award-winning novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) and The English Class (2010), his collections of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997), and Terminally Poetic (2020), which won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, his book website: www.huangzhouren.com and his bilingual blog: youyang2.blogspot.com He was shortlisted for the Writer's Prize in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature and won the Fellowship from the Australia Council in late 2021 for writing a documentary novel. His sixth novel, All the Rivers Ran South, is coming out in late 2023 with Puncher & Wattmann, which is also publishing his seventh novel, The Sun at Eight or Nine in mid-2024. His first collection of short stories, The White Cockatoo Flowers, is forthcoming in 2024 with Transit Lounge Publishing.

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