【图书简介】 Opower. An extraordinary and chilling dramatisation of the dark side of nation-building, it is also a deft exploration of the failings of human nature.Su Tong’s Xie Empire is a dreamlike, beautiful.brutal place [and] his prose is full of gorgeous images.Sunday Times Powerful and elegant... The world he so viwdly depicts has the timelessness of a classical Chinese court painting, and at least as much cruelty as a traditional romance. Readers brought up on the Chinese historical novels of Pearl Buck or the quasi-historical sagas of Mary Renault will revel in the serpentine atmosphere and Voluptuous Prose.Independent.-读书网|DuShu.com