{"product_id":"remains-of-life-michael-berry-9780231166010","title":"Remains of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a headhunting ritual. The Japanese responded with a militia of three thousand, heavy artillery, airplanes, and internationally banned poisonous gas, bringing the tribe to the brink of genocide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly seventy years later, Chen Guocheng, a writer known as Wu He, or \"Dancing Crane,\" investigated the Musha Incident to search for any survivors and their descendants. \u003ci\u003eRemains of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, a milestone of Chinese experimental literature, is a fictionalized account of the writer's experiences among the people who live their lives in the aftermath of this history. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, it contains no paragraph breaks and only a handful of sentences. Shifting among observations about the people the author meets, philosophical musings, and fantastical leaps of imagination, \u003ci\u003eRemains of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful literary reckoning with one of the darkest chapters in Taiwan's colonial history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Berry, Wu Wu He\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 023116601X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231166010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2017 pg. 30","brand":"Michael Berry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056690262271,"sku":"9780231166010","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff6ca487-73d5-4a3d-bfd9-6238d67cea75.jpg?v=1685042718","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remains-of-life-michael-berry-9780231166010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}