Other Places, Other Times

Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions.  Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E.

As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission.  He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet.  Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses.  The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems, which are also included.  The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations, from post-war England to Renaissance Italy, Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany, South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth, Ruthenia in the seventeenth, and the American West after the Civil War.

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Other Places, Other Times

Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions.  Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E.

As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission.  He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet.  Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses.  The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems, which are also included.  The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations, from post-war England to Renaissance Italy, Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany, South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth, Ruthenia in the seventeenth, and the American West after the Civil War.

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Other Places, Other Times

Other Places, Other Times

by Robert Wexelblatt
Other Places, Other Times

Other Places, Other Times

by Robert Wexelblatt

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Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions.  Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E.

As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission.  He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet.  Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses.  The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems, which are also included.  The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations, from post-war England to Renaissance Italy, Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany, South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth, Ruthenia in the seventeenth, and the American West after the Civil War.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940166987686
Publisher: Pelekinesis
Publication date: 02/20/2023
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. He has published three previous story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone, The Decline of Our Neighborhood, and The Artist Wears Rough Clothing; a book of essays, Professors at Play; two short novels, Losses and The Derangement of Jules Torquemal, and essays, stories, and poems in a variety of scholarly and literary journals. His novel Zublinka Among Women was awarded the Indie Book Awards first-place prize for fiction.

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