In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a minor bureaucrat in the government of the Mongol conquerors. He is also an extraordinarily gifted artist whose paintings capture the infinite expanse of China's natural beauty. But an empire in turmoil is not a place or time for sitting still. On his journeys across the realm, Wang encounters fellow master painters, a fierce female warrior known as the White Tigress who recruits him as a military strategist, and an unprepossessing young Buddhist monk who rises from beggary to extraordinary heights.
John Spurling's award-winning The Ten Thousand Things seamlessly fuses the epic and the intimate with the precision and depth that the real-life Wang Meng brought to his art.
- ISBN10 0715647318
- ISBN13 9780715647318
- Publish Date 26 February 2015 (first published 24 April 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 February 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Prelude
- Imprint Duckworth
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English