Life after death. 8 + 8

The collection includes eight stories of modern Chinese writers and eight - Russian. The theme of life after death is revealed by the authors, first of all, not as a transition to another world or reasoning about immortality, but as “a detailed metaphor for everyday life, when one or another fatal act or inaction leads to death - whether spiritual, spiritual, but partial death. And the more you peer into the world that open different in the worldview, stylistics, aesthetic addictions of the work, the more the evidence of the mismatch, the conjugation of two different cultures ”(Irina Barmetova) arises. The idea of ​​this substantial and general literary dialogue is proposed by the Beijing Publishing House People"s Literature (People"s Literature Publishing House, China) and is supported by the Publishing House Time. The collection Life after death is published simultaneously in two languages