Private Room [Chinese]

By Cristina Rossi

What does a twenty-first century Don Quixote encounter in a late-night bar? Is redemption possible for the guilty serial killer? Can a woman with only a voice be found? How do men and women in middle age face the dilemma of marriage? Should desire take on a veneer or remain naked? Where are the boundaries between the morbid and the healthy, the sane and the insane? Private Rooms consists of ten short stories, told in the traditional way by Christina Perry Rossi, for the modern age. The characters in the book are often unnamed, but all have clearly recognizable psychic markers. They include the jaded and the obsessed, the unemployed and the successful, all suffering from a failure of human connection, exiled or self-exiled within urban civilization. Through the author's unperturbed tone, we see how they hastily place themselves when crisis strikes: with sex, with love, with eccentricity or psychosis. This is the unguarded private room where a silent invitation has been extended. Push open the hidden door and step into the scene of a distant and intimate story, where absurdity and sting are found, as well as solace and light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 7521229959
• ISBN13: 9787521229950
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Zuo Jia Chu Ban She