Linda Jaivin

From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Modern China is seen variously as an economic powerhouse, an icon of urbanisation, a propaganda state and an aggressive superpower seeking world domination.Jaivin distils this vast history into a sparkling narrative, from mythical origins to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its a story in which Chinas women, from the earliest warriors to 20th-century suffragettes, receive long overdue attention.As historical spectres of corruption and disunity continue to haunt the Peoples Republic, Jaivin discusses what may lie ahead not just for China but for the world.

¿De qué hablan las mujeres... cuando hablan de hombres?Cuatro amigas se reúnen para intercambiar experiencias sobre sus conquistas amorosas y sus fantasías sexuales. Julia es una fotógrafa obsesionada por los chicos jovenes; Helen es profesora de ideologia feminista con deseos inconfesables; Chantal es editora de una revista de moda, con tendencia a dejarse seducir por nuevas experiencias y Philippa, una escritora que oculta su lesbianismo y sus tendencias sadomasoquistas.

Sinopsis: Desde la oscura capacidad de seducción de un poeta underground hasta un encuentro sadomasoquista entre lesbianas. Todo esto y mucho más aflora con todo lujo de detalles de la boca de cuatro amigas que comparten con el lector sus experiencias ero

Cómeme es una novela provocativa y llena de matices, una obra en la que realidad y ficción se unen en una mezcla explosiva de originalidad e ingenio. ¿Juego literario, pornografía o devastadora sátira social? Quiza un poco de todo, combinado, eso si, con la perversa sensualidad de sus cuatro protagonistas. Un libro imprescindible para saber de que hablan realmente las mujeres... cuando hablan de hombres.Linda Jaivin es escritora y traductora. Ha publicado articulos y reportajes en gran numero de publicaciones australianas. Comeme es su primera novela, considerada por la critica referente obligado para la literatura erotica.

Excellent... surefooted and perceptive, enlivened by a wealth of vignettes and anecdotes which bring to life the dramatic and frequently horrific events that have played a seminal role in forming Chinese society as it exists today PHILIP SHORT, author of Mao: A LifeMao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966 to purge his critics and blood a new generation of fighters. Ten years later, almost two million people had been killed and much of Chinas heritage, from precious manuscripts to ancient temples, had been obliterated.The shadow of these terrible years lies heavily over the twenty-first-century nation. The history of this period is so toxic that Chinas rulers have gone to great lengths to bury it while a few brave men and women risk their freedom to uncover the truth. For as both they and the Party know, to grasp the history of the Cultural Revolution is to understand much about China today.Bombard the Headquarters! is not just Maos story. Its the unforgettable stories of countless individuals, mass manias, of sacred mangos, and spectacular falls from grace. At once rigorous and readable, brief yet teeming with colourful detail, this is a marvel of historical storytelling.A beautifully concise account that makes sense of a hugely complex event in modern Chinese history. Linda Jaivin puts her formidable, deep experience both of Chinese history and language to excellent use, conveying in 100 pages what most would struggle to achieve in a thousand KERRY BROWN, author of China Incorporated

¿De qué hablan las mujeres cuando hablan de sexo? En Cómeme, Linda Jaivin invita a sus lectores a una bacanal lasciva y desternillante de conversaciones en torno al tema más candente de todos cuantos existen: el sexo. Cuatro amigas comparten con el lector sus experiencias eróticas con todo lujo de detalles. Cómeme es una novela provocadora y llena de matices, una novela en la que realidad y fi cción se unen en una mezcla explosiva de originalidad e ingenio.

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