Gull Between Heaven and Earth

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<p><em>For Emperor and Country, or Love and Family?</em><br /><br />Zimei () is faced with a bleak future. Despite his great potential and hailing from an illustrious lineage, he serves his Emperor as a lowly Tang Dynasty official, having failed the Imperial Examinations twice.<br /><br />He sets out on a lifelong journey, seeking out first hermits and sages, then peace and home while documenting in verse the sufferings unleashed by civil war, sealing a friendship with the infamous Li Bai that will leave a remarkable legacy to Chinese literature.<br /><br />Zimei's story is the life of Du Fu (, 712-770), China’s first poet-historian and the nation’s greatest poet, reimagined in this epic debut novel by multi-award-winning author Boey Kim Cheng.</p>

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Boey Kim Cheng is a multi-award-winning Singapore-born poet, and a 1996 recipient of the National Arts Councils Young Artist Award. He emigrated to Australia in 1997, but returned in 2013 as one of Nanyang Technological University's writers-in-residence; he is currently Associate Professor in the NTU Division of English. He co-founded<em>Mascara Literary Review</em> in 2007, the first Australian literary journal to promote Asian Australian writing, and in 2013 co-edited the groundbreaking anthology<em>Contemporary Asian Australian Poets</em>. Boey has published five collections of poetry, including<em>Clear Brightness</em> (selected by<em>The Straits Times</em> as one of the Best Books of 2012), as well as<em>Between Stations</em>, a celebrated travel memoir reissued by Epigram Books in 2017. His writing is frequently studied in tertiary and university institutions in Singapore and abroad.<em>Gull Between Heaven and Earth</em> is his first novel.

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