Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling Izumi Suzuki In To Photograph Is To

In To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die

"Almada’s prose is sparse

resonating with the notion of a general cultural malaise and a reinvestment in traces of lost futures inhabiting the present

Jacolby Satterwhite

I’ll take all your favorite things and rip them to shreds

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling Izumi Suzuki In To Photograph Is ToStrange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling ISBN 9780140447408 562 page paperback from Penguin Classics *** Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640 1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar