Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia

$29.00

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8 in stock

Where Reality Merges with Illusion

Winner of the 2024 New York City Big Book Award in World Literature
Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in Multicultural Fiction

In Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia, Xue Mo weaves history, religion, and myth into a mesmerizing tapestry of northwestern China. Through lost manuscripts and the journey of Snow Feather—a Dakini in Tantric Buddhism—the novel traverses time and space, blurring the boundaries between good and evil, reality and fiction, the mundane and the supernatural. A work where magical realism echoes the echoes of an ancient kingdom, and every page breathes with the collision of truth and legend.

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“The Curse of the Western Xia” is a vast, chaotic allegory—earth-shattering yet beyond simple description. It embodies great compassion without anguish, grand revelry without greed, embracing breadth and profound mystery. Through the interpretation and reimagining of historical secrets unearthed from Western Xia cave ruins, the work unveils little-known aspects of Western landscapes: curse rituals, clan vendettas, human bone ritual objects, wooden donkey punishments, tantric practices… Historical nightmares, the weight of reality, spiritual seeking, and ultimate questioning intertwine, creating an extraordinarily wondrous and magical world. In its exploration of literary form and narrative technique, it reaches a transcendental level of mastery, radiating distinct originality.