Between Darkness and Light - by Roy Peachey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Between Darkness and Light is the story of a one-eyed Chinese interpreter in WW1. Shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers, it is a novel about blindness, an unconventional love story, a war novel in which there is no fighting, and a post-war novel about the meeting of East and West.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>'A shape flew towards him, blurred and uncertain, then the terror of anticipation was driven out by pain and horror. Weilian Tell missed the apple. The arrow's sharp, bright tip pierced his eyeball.'</p><p>Shanghai 1900. Blinded in one eye during a childhood game of William Tell, Wang Weijun loses himself in a world of magic, languages and Shakespeare. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to leave his past behind by signing up as a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps. However, what he finds in France jolts him out of his one-eyed admiration for the West and plunges him into a new and wholly unexpected battle in which east and west, tragedy and comedy, love and suffering meet, and the darkness of war is illuminated in ways he could never have anticipated.</p><p>Shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers, <em>Between Darkness and Light</em> is a novel about blindness, an unconventional love story, a war novel in which there is no fighting, and a post-war novel about the meeting of East and West.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'In this compelling and audacious novel about sight and insight, perspective and translation, Peachey's Wang Weijun 'turns disfigurement to his advantage' and examines China and the West through a wryly humorous and uniquely perceptive solitary lens.' Martin Alexander, Editor-in-Chief, Asia Literary Review</p><p>'A tragic epic ... With keen eye for historical and cultural detail, Peachey takes his readers on a sad odyssey across China and around the world, ending in a no-man's land where Weijun finds the fate that was foreshadowed from the start - but with a surprising, humane twist.' Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Notre Dame, USA</p><p>'Of all the imaginings of those times, this is a tale that stands out.' T. H. Barrett, Professor Emeritus of East Asian History, SOAS.</p><br>
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