HongFei cultures

New Title Spring 2008

Tides of Love in the Night Marée d'amour dans la nuit

[ Edition HongFei Cultures | Collection Belle Ile Formosa  | ISBN 978-2-35558-005-5  ]

In a magic setting of endless shades of light, HongFei Cultures presents the unpreceded French version of a sensitive story of XU Dishan, a great traveller and writer of China in the 1920s.

text XU Dishan | illustration Mélusine THIRY

very short story translated from Chinese to French (approx. 800 words)

illustrated for adults and children above six of age

album 25x25 cm, 32 pages | full colours, hardback

key words life, healing, love

The moon shines in all her beauty. Rising above the East wall of Ji's Family, she seems to smile at the boy Bao-Huang, while making his father sad.

For the moon brings with her huge tides of love overwhelming the man : a hundred days will have gone since his beloved wife passed away.

Storyline

The moon shines in all her beauty.  Rising above the East wall of Ji's Family, she seems to smile at the boy Bao-Huang, while making his father sad. The boy doesn't know why.

The young housemaid accompanies Bao-Huang to the riverside, joining people in the Lantern Festival. This colourful celebration coincides with the "Hundred Days" of the death of the boy's mother.

Back to the house, the music of the celebration fades away while the suppressed sobs of the father resound in the dark. Gently, the sad songs of love turn into a lulliby sending the boy into the dreamland, like tides' caressing with unfailing care.

What the story teaches

Learn to get strength out of the harsh moments in life.

Author

XU Dishan (1893 Taiwan - 1941 Hong-Kong), philosopher and novelist, is known for his short stories. Set  in China's eventful years of 1920s, his well depicted figures inspire reader's sympathy over the last half century.

Illustrator

Mélusine THIRY is a designer of lighting for live spectacles such as marionnette theatres. Skilled in paper cutting, she is inspired by the "tiny" objects and the "infinit" spaces, blended into a dreamland with mysterious shades of light. Through her original visual language, she interprets the joys and pains of growing-up shared by every sensitive heart.

She is the winner of the Prize of Adults and Mediators of the Figures Futur 2006 competition.

To order

ISBN 978-2-35558-005-5

Issued by CEDIF Diffusion / DAUDIN Distribution

Available for individual readers in French bookshops starting April 2008

Price 13,20 euros TTC