Distant Sunflower Fields Helen Kay Denys Johnson Davies

Denys Johnson Davies

as well as translations of Aeschylus and of Quechua poetry from Bolivia

A toxic cocktail of over-zealous aunts and uncles

The Shaking City

and where a seven-legged arachnid can be a wise companion for

Distant Sunflower Fields Helen Kay Denys Johnson DaviesAn iron willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 acres of less than ideal farmland: these are Li Juans companions on the steppes of the Gobi Desert. Writing out of a yurt under Xinjiangs endless horizons, she documents her familys quest to extract a bounty of sunflowers amid the harsh beauty and barren expanses of Chinas northwest frontier. Success must be eked out in the face of lifes unnegotiable realities: sandstorms,