Watering Heaven edition by Peter Tieryas Liu Literature Fiction eBooks
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What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be if you were invited to a party in Beijing but had to make up a brand-new identity for six weeks? Peter Tieryas Liu’s Watering Heaven is a travelogue of and requiem for the American dream in all its bizarre manifestations and a surreal, fantastic journey through the streets, alleys, and airports of China. Whether it’s a monk who uses acupuncture needles to help him fly or a city filled with rats about to be exterminated so that the mayor can win his reelection bid, be prepared to laugh, swoon, and shudder at the answers Liu offers in this provocative debut collection.
Watering Heaven edition by Peter Tieryas Liu Literature Fiction eBooks
Having read a couple of Peter Tieryas' novels first, I knew he had a creative mind and was looking forward to see what he had come up with in a series of short stories. I was not disappointed. The stories include themes of love, longing, loneliness, frustration, sadness and aimlessness. Nearly all of the stories focus on a relationship between a man and a woman in some form. Some of them include an oddity, not so much sci-fi, but also not really 'magic'. It's hard to describe but it is certainly creative.If you enjoy short stories, creative writing, interpersonal relationship stories...then do *not* miss out on this collection. You won't be disappointed either.
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Watering Heaven edition by Peter Tieryas Liu Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
He has talent, no doubt, but I found this collection self-consciously 'clever'. I didn't buy any of the characters or situations. He is just trying too hard to be cool. Nothing resonates or feels substantial. He's no Murakami when it comes to 'magical realism'.
Short stories are hard to appreciate because there often isn't enough there. That is not the case with Watering Heaven. In this delightful, strange and rich collection, you are not only brought into the atmosphere of each little story and it's characters, you become invited into something deeper. The descriptions and actions of it's characters feel very personal because the observations are so detailed and unusual - and I mean unusual in the most fascinating sense. Liu's characters are constantly observing, fantasizing, and pontificating and commensurate with their immediate feelings and surroundings. He reminds us what makes us human. You wish you paid that much attention to things. Add on a surreal mix of the absurd and insecurities and hidden desires all of us have, and you end up with almost a sci-fi mix of romance and adventure in what initially appear to be just casual encounters between individuals.
There is no need to describe any of the stories here because to do so would be to give away that strange and surprising experience you would have reading and exploring them yourselves. This is writing that is new, exciting, modern and completely reflective of our own fears and observations in this complex and fractured society of ours as it heads towards the unknown. Highly recommended.
I've been fumbling for days now, searching for the exact right words to describe this book. I'd started writing my review even before I finished the book. So many stories stood out that it became hard to pick which ones I could claim as my favorite. Even that word--"favorite"--all but loses its meaning when you come across such a wonderful collection.
One of the elements of Liu's collection I enjoyed most was the way he elegantly layered in different myths with his modern stories where the protagonist would ultimately learn something. Beyond that, Liu has a way of tying the myths and stories together often with incredible single lines. They're like a punch to the solar plexus when you see what he's done.
"I wanted something so badly, I tried to destroy it when I couldn't have it."
"Unfortunately, my essence too was just a shard, a sublimation of everything I'd wanted. . . . Death was the normal end for everyone there, and only there, would my search for normalcy end."
These two quotes are from two different stories, but they share one commonality they guide the reader toward what's really important from the story. They help the reader as well as the protagonist take something away.
Some of these stories demanded that I put the book down and let the impact of the language sink in. For other people, the book can be read in a couple sittings, but for me, I had to process each story on its own. I felt like it'd be a disservice not to give each one individual attention.
Therein lies one of the other elements I enjoyed most the way each story stands out on its own, yet feels perfectly selected for inclusion in this collection. There are recurring characters--Larry Chao might be the most memorable--as well as recurring themes, though never do they feel rehashed.
Superlatives run thin at this point in some reviews. I can't recommend the book enough. It's got an incredibly tender, human element that is missing from so much of today's literature, which is really some of the highest praise I can give a book.
I really enjoyed this one. Initially, I was wanting to make comparisons to Calvino or Borges (both of which would be accurate), except, as I worked through the collection, what stood out--even when there were bursts of intense creativity and magical realism--was the personal and emotional energy running through all of them, the elegance and the tendency to do away with unnecessary artifice. The stories are about alienation, love, self-discovery to the same extent they're concerned with self, representation, mythology. Some of the standouts for me were "The Political Conceptions of Getting Fired", "Gradients", and especially "Chronology of an Egg. It was also great to see so many stories dealing with China or Chinese Americans. In general, the only thing I felt was missing was a longer story to act as sort of the center of the collection--the longest story was about 17 pages, whereas I would have preferred to see one or two between 30 and 60, since so many of these pieces dealt with the relationships between people over long periods of time. It's been a while since I read through a short story collection in just a few days, and this is one I would definitely recommend checking out.
Having read a couple of Peter Tieryas' novels first, I knew he had a creative mind and was looking forward to see what he had come up with in a series of short stories. I was not disappointed. The stories include themes of love, longing, loneliness, frustration, sadness and aimlessness. Nearly all of the stories focus on a relationship between a man and a woman in some form. Some of them include an oddity, not so much sci-fi, but also not really 'magic'. It's hard to describe but it is certainly creative.
If you enjoy short stories, creative writing, interpersonal relationship stories...then do *not* miss out on this collection. You won't be disappointed either.
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