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Chargement... Avenue of Eternal Peace (1991)par Nicholas Jose
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Beijing is a city of opportunity and danger when cancer specialist Wally Frith arrives there from Sydney. Chance encounters have life-changing consequences. As the doctor's journey spirals back into his own family story, memories and ghosts shadow the seductions of the present. 'Avenue of Eternal Peace', a kaleidoscopic novel of healing and hope, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and filmed as 'Children of the Dragon' with Bob Peck and Lily Chen. This is a new, revised edition. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I hunted out a copy at the library as, almost contemporaneously, there were mass protests in Hong Kong, against a proposed Extradition Bill which would not only enable extradition from Hong Kong to China, but would also enable the integration of aspects of Hong Kong's legal system (which is basically British, i.e. innocent till proven guilty) with China's (which is basically socialist, i.e. guilty as soon as you are charged). But it is not just the prospect of this change to the protections of Hong Kong's separate legal system that is a matter of concern. Those of us who remember the horror of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in June 1989 have been watching these protests in Hong Kong with alarm in case the violence escalates. The situation as I write is that the proposed Bill has been dropped, but protestors are maintaining vigilance despite the violence against them by their own government. It was the eerie confluence of this protest movement in Hong Kong, with the 30-year anniversary of the democracy protests which ended in the massacre, that made reading Nicholas Jose's Avenue of Eternal Peace such riveting reading.
Nominated for the 1990 Miles Franklin Prize, Avenue of Eternal Peace was Jose's third novel, and it was written from an 'insider's' perspective. In 1986-87, Jose worked in Shanghai and Beijing, teaching at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and the East China Normal University, and after that was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987-1990. This is the blurb from Jose's website:
What drives the novel initially, is Wally Frith's search for Professor Hsu Chien Lung, and the author (writing in 1989) draws on recent discoveries that cervical cancer is caused by a virus. Frith's wife has died of cancer, so his search for cancer treatments is personal: he's a no-nonsense man (i.e. not interested in quackery) but he has over time witnessed a change in cancer treatments from those that were based on a 'remove-the-invader' approach using either surgery or radiotherapy or a combination of the two, to a recognition that the cancer is caused by the body itself in response to poisons or triggers of some kind and that the malformation originated from viruses. What he needs is clinical data, and he thinks Professor Hsu has it.
Knowing what we do of socialist regimes and the way that people can 'disappear', makes the disappearance of Professor Hsu not only mysterious but also potentially dangerous for Frith.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/06/16/avenue-of-eternal-peace-by-nicholas-jose/ ( )