Rights Information

Copyright©2018by Xuemo

All language rights available

Marketing Information

Desert Rites is one of his desert trilogies that takes him twelve years to finish with elaborate care and finally makes him achieve immense literary acclaim and launches his career as a nationally recognized writer. The novel, which is set in the

Hexi Corridor of Gansu Province, is remarkable not only for its huge cast of characters and psychological scope, but also for its precise and detailed episodic records of the famers’ life in China’s west typical of the middle and the end of 20th-century Chinese society. his novel has been adapted for the TV series "Desert Ties” and received extensive attention as well.

In 2016, Howard Goldblatt, who is regarded as the best translator of Chinese comtemporary literature, translated the fiction into English

Reviews

Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality.

Author Biography

  Xuemo formerly known as Chen Kai hong ,a famous cultural scholar .He is also china's national first-class writer. Vice-Chairman of Gansu writers Association. He has been honoured by winning the Feng Mu literature Prize.

  In 2015, He was selected in top ten figures for China's Brand Culture. Many of his works have been publishing in various well-known publishing houses from all over the world and covering a variety of genres such as novels, poems, philosophy of mind, prose and so on. His works are mainly characterized by the culture of western China and also contains the essence of oriental civilization. Since his work s commonly tell the theme of current concern and ultimate transcendence,and written in a language featured with simplicity hallucinatory realism,they have been praised by hundreds of Chinese media as western novels in the true sense and invaluable works of art.

  Just like a mirror, He reflects another lifestyle for modern people by his works. With his brief and concise words, he has helped many readers out of their confusion about their life and mind and leads them to find the beacon light of their own lives. At present, his works has been translated into many different languages in succession, including the English version of Desert Rites, Desert Hunters, Curses of Xixia Dynasty,The holy Monk and the Spirit Woman, The world is a reflection of the mind, The Essence of Mahamudra,and Love letters From the Goddess. It's noted that Selected Stories by XueMo has been translated into more than twelve different languages.

   Now once his works are issued, they will attract extensive attention from readers at home and abroad, and play a unique and irreplaceable role in spreading the excellent culture and contemporary literature of China.

Copyright Information

All language rights available