Cirrus@Austlit

"Foreign Literature" is a purely literary publication that focuses on contemporary foreign literature. Published by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House, it has focused, systematic translation of contemporary foreign literature and art (literature, and art) works and theories, introduced representative schools, reflecting the new foreign literature trends and dynamics.

'Set against the backdrop of the Australian coast, as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers.

'You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam seeking his Eve; sharing the fears of a small boy in a coastal classroom as a tsunami approaches; in an English gaol cell with an Australian surfer on drug charges; and witnessing a middle-aged farmer contemplating murdering the hippie who stole his wife.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin ed.)